Other plans being considered include handing police the power to detain people with the virus who are not following official advice.
Former Cabinet minister David Blunkett told a Shropshire audience that Chancellor Gordon Brown would trounce all his rivals for the Prime Minister's job if there was a General Election tomorrow.
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