NEW: @BorisJohnson on schools:
-Parents should ‘absolutely’ send kids to primary schools tomorrow, in the areas that they are open.
-‘Schools are safe’. The risk to kids and staff is ‘small’.
#Marr
-Parents should ‘absolutely’ send kids to primary schools tomorrow, in the areas that they are open.
-‘Schools are safe’. The risk to kids and staff is ‘small’.
#Marr
PM avoids question of whether he will consider govt legal action against councils who close schools.
‘I don’t think that’s the case’ that local authorities have taken things into their own hands.
#Marr
‘I don’t think that’s the case’ that local authorities have taken things into their own hands.
#Marr
PM says ‘the priority has got to be children’s education’.
Sounds like (understandably) PM cannot guarantee all schools will open on Jan 18th. ‘We’ve got to be realistic’ about pace and impact of new variant.
#Marr
Sounds like (understandably) PM cannot guarantee all schools will open on Jan 18th. ‘We’ve got to be realistic’ about pace and impact of new variant.
#Marr
Ooft. PM on the possibility of a Tier 5 or tougher restrictions:
‘It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I’m fully reconciled to that.’
#Marr
‘It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I’m fully reconciled to that.’
#Marr
PM doesn’t seem to be across numbers of Pfizer and AZ vaccines be distributed.
But he says it is ‘absurd’ retired doctors are being asked to go through ‘pointless bureaucracy’ to sign up as vaccine volunteers.
#Marr
But he says it is ‘absurd’ retired doctors are being asked to go through ‘pointless bureaucracy’ to sign up as vaccine volunteers.
#Marr
A vaccine rollout commitment from the PM:
‘We will be able to do tens of millions in the course of the next three months.’
#Marr
‘We will be able to do tens of millions in the course of the next three months.’
#Marr
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