UK Covid: Sajid Javid warns country could hit 100,000 cases per day and urges people to get jabs – as it happened

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Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, told the London assembly this morning that it was a mistake for the Met, at a briefing, to suggest that women stopped by an undercover lone officer could, as a last resort, flag down a bus if they were worried. When asked about this at a hearing this morning, Dick said that a colleague had used that line after being pressed, pressed, pressed" as to what to do if all else failed. She went on:

I completely understand why that ended up as the headline. It was not intended. And that is not how we see things.

And, yes, we have reviewed it. And I think we would, hopefully, address the question differently were it to come again in the future.

The prime minister thinks he can continue to hide behind the NHS' successful vaccine rollout but he is undoing all of their hard work by proceeding with the careless attitude that this pandemic is over.

In August the APPG on coronavirus warned how dropping all restrictions coupled with increased winter pressure could spell disaster and two months on, with case numbers and deaths continuing to rise, the government must act or risk of repeating the failures of last Christmas.