The Prime Minister, who faces a Commons showdown with his own MPs over the stringent measures, urged the nation to "work together" with tiering, testing and vaccines. But if we try to jump the fence now, we will simply tangle ourselves in the last barbed wire, with disastrous consequences for the NHS. The Prime Minister likened the development of effective vaccines to the "morale-boosting bugle-blasting excitement of Wellington's Prussian allies coming through the woods on the afternoon of Waterloo". Mr Johnson wrote to Tory MPs on Saturday night ahead of a crunch Commons vote on the restrictions on Tuesday, when scores of them could rebel. They are angry at that so much of the country will be under stringent restrictions when the national lockdown ends.

Source: Daily Mirror November 29, 2020 01:55 UTC