QUOTES OFTHEDAY

“If you would expect to go into that restaurant normally, or pub, and order a plated meal at the table of a Cornish pasty with chips or side salad or whatever it comes with, then that’s a normal meal. This isn’t actually as unusual a concept as you might feel”

- Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick

explains what constitutes a meal

“Many infectious diseases never reach herd immunity, like measles and malaria and Aids and flu, and with increasing evidence of reinfection, we should have no confidence that we would ever reach herd immunity to Covid, even if everyone caught it. Herd immunity is a flawed goal without a vaccine, even if we could get to it, which we can’t”

- Health Secretary Matt Hancock

“There’s no longer time to give the Prime Minister the benefit of the doubt. The Government’s plan simply isn’t working. Another course is needed”

- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, above, advocates a “circuit breaker” lockdown

“It would be a cardinal sin on our part if we said something was in the toolbox which we didn’t know if it actually worked. The big question is – do banks’ systems actually allow them to put negative numbers in?”

- The governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey says he is still assessing a move to negative interest rates

“The new development proposed by Sainsbury’s threatens the hedgehogs’ very existence in this part of Surrey”

- Queen guitarist Brian May objects to supermarket expansion plans in Burpham