1. Boris Johnson’s answer to this question demonstrates he is ill equipped to handle this crisis. I don’t know a single public health expert, scientist or clinician who has advocated locking down for a year. He simply doesn’t understand how to tackle the problem.

2. Countries that have done well are living life more or less as normal. Vietnam, New Zealand, Taiwan, China are getting on with life as a result of the effective measures used by their governments. It is Britain that faces perpetual lockdown. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-more-areas-could-go-into-tier-4-as-variant-strain-spreads-sir-patrick-vallance-suggests-12169626

3. Boris Johnson talks about the vaccine as though it’s a magic bullet. Vaccines will only work as part of a package of measures, and the more we allow transmission, the greater the risk vaccines will fail. https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1340935088452874241

4. This was a brilliant question from @PippaCrerar

And in reply to a question about unrealistic expectations, Boris Johnson set a further unrealistic expectation: that life will be back to normal by Easter.

5. The Prime Minister is out of his depth. Someone needs to explain to him that there is another way. A way that has seen other countries return more or less to normal. Things here just seem to go from bad to worse as one mistake compounds another.

6. If Boris Johnson wants to stop being the PM that couldn’t, and move on from breaking promises and crushing hopes, he needs to change to a strategy that works. He needs to give people real reason for hope and optimism by switching to #ZeroCovid https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1340606344802557953