COVID live news - latest UK updates: Boris Johnson reveals winter lockdown plan

Bill Birtles, a reporter from Australian TV network ABC, posted this on Twitter...'Can the PM ensure people don't cross border into Wales from high-infection areas after lockdown?'

The PM says he shares his fellow Conservative MP's"basic instincts" and"fundamental libertarian yearnings".17:20Responding to Tory MP Bob Blackman, the PM - whose technical problems appear to have been resolved and is speaking remotely once more - says the capital must be in the same tier despite significantly varied infection rates across different boroughs because it is"held together by a very dense mass transit system".

However, he said there would be no rigid threshold for deciding which tier should be applied. Mr Hancock pointed to the fact that the statistics alone cannot give a full picture of a local situation, using the example of a major outbreak at an army barracks which distorted the true picture of the general community rate of infection in the surrounding area.A new detail has been revealed in the COVID-19 winter plan published today: the contact tracing system will cost an extra £7bn.

The prime minister's understudy in the Commons chamber, Matt Hancock, has offered an answer to the many MPs asking why the government has not yet set out the tiers that each region will be put into. "Please change your mind, prime minister," he said."We must stop deaths occurring that could be avoided."

The British Chambers of Commerce also said it was pleased to have been given more than a week's notice of the rule changes, however said businesses would need to see the"detail" of any new regulations. Mark Harper, a former conservative chief whip who now heads up the backbench group called the Coronavirus Recovery Group, also said that the distribution of the higher tiers was the question that mattered - pointing out that people in the new Tier 3"will struggle to see much difference" with the current lockdown.

Rapid testing will be used by the end of the year to allow every care home resident to have two visitors who can be tested twice a week'Science is coming to our rescue'

Good on that Man! 👏👏👏👏👏. Amazing how 1 man not being a sheep makes it as a SKY NEWS story!! Congratulations to that man for getting maximum exposure and hope the rest of the country follow his lead instead of being SHEEP of the government! 👍

They say he would not give his details... you don’t have to give the police your details you actually have the right to remain silent

Good man

Translates as 'Man got caught' or 'Man got dobbed in'. Reality is that there will be hundreds or thousands of similar activities going on all over the country.

Bet he believes them when the magistrates imprisoned him for non payment of fines

Who does believe in lockdown rules ?

BREAKING NEWS: Nutjob knows other nutjobs.

Why’s this news? Tf.

Hero!

Just give him 10K fine and move him on

Good lad, the tide is turning

TBF, he’s not the only one.

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