There is much to learn from Sweden, from the benefits of adopting a consistent long-term strategy with allied stable messaging, to offering support to help people to do the right thing.

John Edmunds

There is quite a lot of evidence and the effect is not small, it’s not as if this result has just ... come up overnight.

Track and trace was only launched the day before yesterday, so we can't be sure that that is working effectively yet and yet we're going ahead and making these changes anyway, i think that that is rather dangerous.

The government here in Westminster clearly made a decision that this is the sort of level of incidence that they're willing to tolerate, the level of incidence here in the UK is significantly higher than similar countries around Europe, but we've obviously decided that we can tolerate that level of incidence, or the government has.