WATCH: Over 400,000 people volunteer for the Government’s programme in a day. Today’s press conference.
“We are massively ramping up our testing programme,” the Prime Minister said, as questions focused on the matter.
WATCH: Corbyn’s last PMQs. “My voice will not be stilled, I’ll be around, I’ll be campaigning, I’ll be arguing,” he says.
Given last December’s election result, this news will not necessarily dismay Conservative activists and voters.
WATCH: Hancock leads the Government’s daily press conference. He announces a new 4000 bed field hospital in London.
He calls for 250,000 NHS Volunteer Responders and says that 12,000 former NHS staff are returning to the front line.
WATCH: The Prime Minister’s broadcast. “I must give a very simple instruction. You must stay at home.”
“We’ll stop all gathering of more than two people in public, excluding those you live with.”
WATCH: Johnson suggests that if people won’t social distance there may be curfews. His press conference today.
“Even if you think that you are personally invulnerable, there are plenty of people that you can infect and whose lives will therefore be put at risk.”
WATCH: “We want to live in a free society”, Jenrick responds to lockdown demands
“But this isn’t a game; this is very serious. People need to follow that advice.”
WATCH: Corbyn – Johnson said “he’d get Brexit done”, but “hasn’t got a trade deal with the USA”
“I’m proud of the economic agenda we put forward”.
WATCH: Hunt – “I’m sure the Chancellor will be looking at self-employed as well”
“We will be able to get back to normal life, and the quickest way to do that is to avoid having one, two, three million people losing their jobs in the next few months.”
WATCH: Jenrick says government is making “good progress” on hospital supplies
“We’re manufacturing and importing very large quantities now. In recent days we’ve taken receipt of almost three million face marks.”
WATCH: “I’m quite clear; unless people stay at home… more people will die”, says Khan
“Please, please, please, stop mixing. Stay at home.”
WATCH: Eustice – “More food is arriving every day. There is no shortage of food.” Today’s press conference.
“I don’t think it is necessary or appropriate for the Government to dictate” to supermarkets, the Environment adds Secretary says. “We need people to calm down.”
WATCH: Luke Evans, NHS doctor and Tory MP, on self-distancing and self-isolation – what’s the difference?
Conservative MPs who have returned to the NHS front line to help tackle the virus include Maria Caulfield and Caroline Johnson.
WATCH: “You will not face this alone”, says Sunak. The Government’s Coronavirus press conference.
“Getting through this will require a collective national effort with a role for everyone to pay: people, businesses, government. It’s on all of us.”
WATCH: “Above all we’re getting better at testing” – Johnson’s Coronavirus press conference
“I say to businesses, I say to employers: stand by your employees, because we will stand by you.”
WATCH: Sunak must do more and act now 2) Duncan Smith – “Universal Credit has three basic levers that could be pulled.”
“The taper could be lowered dramatically at this stage which would push the floor right up underneath people in work.”