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6.31pm GMT
I think there is a hierarchy between mandating something and permitting it or forbidding it. I think in some areas, in particular sectors where vulnerable elderly people are being cared for, there may be some need for mandation, [in others] some need for a more permissive approach. All that will be set out in due course.
I think that that's the kind of thing - it may be up to individual publicans, it may be up to the landlord.
I've found myself in this long, national conversation thinking very, very deeply about it, and I think the public have been thinking very, very deeply about it.
And my impression is that there is a huge wisdom in the public's feeling about this. Human beings instinctively recognise when something is dangerous and nasty to them. They can see that Covid is collectively a threat and they want us as their government, and me as the prime minister, to take all the actions I can to protect them. And that's what I've been doing for the last year or more.
Gvt clearup operation:
Review not complete but ... potentially .... yes to vaccines passports for pubs. But yes to testing too.
It's either/or https://t.co/qysCdtKPdL
Vaccines, as you know, are the product of international co-operation. I don't think that blockades of either vaccines or of ingredients for vaccines are sensible, and I think that the long-term damage done by blockades can be very considerable.
I would just gently point out to anybody considering a blockade or an interruption of supply chains that companies may look at such actions and draw conclusions about whether or not it is sensible to make future investments in countries where arbitrary blockades are imposed.
5.59pm GMT
Downing Street has just sent out a joint statement from the UK government and the European commission. Here it is in full.
We are all facing the same pandemic and the third wave makes cooperation between the EU and UK even more important.
We have been discussing what more we can do to ensure a reciprocally beneficial relationship between the UK and EU on Covid-19.
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