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“The one thing I can be absolutely confident about is that, by this time next month, there is going to be the mother of all arguments. Because it’s quite feasible that deaths will have come down considerably, infections should have come down considerably, hospitalisations and ICU will still be under a lot of pressure. There will be enormous pressure to loosen things up”

- Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).

“You can’t have a bureaucratic system, you can’t have a system where people don’t know whether they will get the support or not, it has to be immediate. The way to do that is to make it universal” - Professor Stephen Reicher, who is advising the government’s coronavirus response, on proposals to pay £500 to everyone who tests

positive for coronavirus to increase the number of people abiding by quarantine rules.

“At a time when we are all making such great sacrifices, it amounts to a brazen abrogation of the responsibility to protect life and such illegal behaviour is abhorred by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community” Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemns a wedding attended by around 400 people at a north London school which was broken up by police.

“May this serve as a warning to those who think it’s OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than animals.”

- Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Stoten, of Essex Police, speaks as four people smugglers were jailed for the manslaughter of 39 migrants who died in a lorry trailer.