UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson says situation will be ‘bumpy’ to Christmas and perhaps beyond

Boris Johnson rejects idea UK will be locked into rolling lockdowns for years to come; PM says it is too early to say local lockdown measures are not working

1.30pm BST

Nick Thomas-Symond, the shadow home secretary, says that it is “shameless” for Priti Patel to be talking about the “broken” asylum system, as she will in her speech this afternoon. (See 8.47am.) In a statement he says:

The British people will see through the home secretary’s shameless comments about a ‘broken system’, when the system has been overseen by the Tories for a decade.

This is yet more evidence of how lacking in compassion and competence the Tories are.

1.23pm BST

In an interview on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday earlier Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University and an adviser on coronavirus to the Scottish government, said that lockdown fatigue was likely to be an increasing problem. She explained:

I think the large majority of people are still following the rules but of course fatigue is setting in … I think that’s where local lockdowns have a role to play if there is actually a strategy behind them, so they were used for example in Australia or in Vietnam or in New Zealand for just one or two weeks or a few weeks, to crush the curve. Basically, to get rid of the virus and that was the aim they were heading towards. You could tell people it is going to be a few weeks … and then you get your normal life back.

So, I think the longer this stretches on, the worse it is actually going to be.

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