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.”
“We’ll stop all gathering of more than two people in public, excluding those you live with.”
“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.”
“But this isn’t a game; this is very serious. People need to follow that advice.”
“I’m proud of the economic agenda we put forward”.
“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.”
“We’re manufacturing and importing very large quantities now. In recent days we’ve taken receipt of almost three million face marks.”
“Please, please, please, stop mixing. Stay at home.”
“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.”
Conservative MPs who have returned to the NHS front line to help tackle the virus include Maria Caulfield and Caroline Johnson.
“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.”
“I say to businesses, I say to employers: stand by your employees, because we will stand by you.”
“The taper could be lowered dramatically at this stage which would push the floor right up underneath people in work.”
“Instead of firms paying PAYE to the Government, that flow should now be reversed”, the former Business Secretary tells the Commons.
“After schools shut their gates from Friday afternoon, they will remained closed for most pupils… until further notice”
“We will not go ahead with assessments or exams, and that we will not be publishing performance tables for this academic year.”