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Families stopping to talk in the street would be in breach of the rule of six restrictions, the Home Secretary has said. Priti Patel said she would report her neighbours if they broke the rules.

ANTWBA434 said: “People need to start thinking is it actually all worth it. I could understand if it was like the plague where everybody was dying in the streets but come on – it’s a 98 per cent recovery rate and were trying to destroy our very existence and way of life. Of course karma will now place me in the two per cent.”

@thechasefox posted: “If you voted Conservative, and are outraged by literally everything that Priti Patel does, then maybe you should have listened to your friends who tried to tell you that Boris and his mates would be a bad idea.”

@colinwatkins wondered: “How often do you go for a walk with your whole family and randomly bump into another family and do more than acknowledge them?”

@andrewmburnssho1 commented: “Good luck policing this. Pretty sure there was around 40-odd parents this morning chatting away at school drop off. In my gym there was a good 15 chatting after a workout in the rest area. And don’t get me started about supermarkets . . .”

@pmg08 declared: “My dad was diagnosed with cancer last year, got over it, went into lockdown and then came out of lockdown so if you think that I’m keeping his grandkids away from him now you have another think coming, Priti Patel. Fine me, I don’t care.”

@freethy said: “So, for clarity, breaking international law = fine, but two families of four stopping to chat in the street = unforgivable, should be reported to the authorities. Unless they’re on a grouse shoot, in which case, crack on.”

@spike_philip posted: “Ten family groups of six can sit in the pub as long as they don’t speak to each other. Just give them a wave and send a text message. I thought that’s all most people did anyway.”

@giz1964 commented: “I wonder if they practice what they preach.”

@stef1188 added: “How about if we all jump into the car, drive to Barnard Castle whilst ensuring our eyesight is fit for driving whilst meeting up with family members to do a spot of hunting and bumping into family friends coincidentally?”