尽管外国政府坚持主张到目前为止在多仑多传染的威胁很低，英国政府立刻签署了这一新的方案，与此同时保守党遣责他们在威胁英国问题上保持的“致命的沉默”。

• The British government immediately endorsed the new measures, despite Foreign Office insistance that until now the threat of infection in Toronto remained low, as the Tories accused it of maintaining a "lethal silence" on the threat to Britain.