QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The very clear advice we received is that any change to our social distancing measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus. That would threaten a second peak of the virus and substantially increase the number of deaths”

– Dominic Raab reveals lockdown measures will continue for at least three more weeks.

“Our country and all our nations, we’re all so generous in all sorts of ways. But it’s for a super purpose. Nurses, doctors and all the back-up workers, they deserve everything we can give them”

– Second World War veteran Captain Tom Moore, 99, thanks the public for their donations after raising more than £14m for the NHS.

“As an adopted Yorkshireman I’ve come to recognise true Yorkshire grit, and your story is an inspiration to us all. It just goes to show that British spirit is as strong as it’s ever been”

– Chancellor Rishi Sunak praises Capt Moore’s efforts.

“Their selfless commitment has touched the hearts of the entire nation”

– The Duke of Cambridge, above, lauds NHS workers, contractors and military personnel at the opening of Birmingham’s Nightingale Hospital.

“I’m reminded by the fact we had a Department for Brexit for Government – that was a major national emergency, as it were – and we’re faced with something which is, at the moment, even larger than Brexit, and yet I don’t see quite the same evidence for that level of organisation”

– Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, questions the Government’s approach to an exit strategy.