Blair - who has been a loud voice in the UK's vaccine debate - urged ministers to aim for five million jabs per week.

Meanwhile in the UK the gender pay gap widens at department run by women and equalities minister Liz Truss.

He insinuated mums were "taking their kids for a day out at A&E to harvest Facebook likes because their darling little snot covered ASBO fell over."

"'Clap for Carers' has become 'Clap for Heroes' and they're expecting us back out on our doorsteps this week. I shall not be clapping. Not because I don't respect the NHS - I do - but because I am tired of empty gestures when the NHS is starved of both ...

Sharp, 64, is a Tory party donor - and used to be Rishi Sunak’s boss at Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 23 years.

"It means there's probably an infected person on every bus, several in every supermarket and many in every block of flats using the lifts."

GMB Union said that ministers must close nurseries now to save lives, with the pandemic reaching a crisis point across the country.

Whichever solution the UK chooses, it will need to implement it soon, as fraudsters have already begun advertising fake NHS vaccine cards online.

“My friend didn’t wear a mask because he believed the lies from our leaders. Now, he’s close to being intubated. He asked that I share this.”