"Please could I ask you a favour? Instead of clapping for us, could you maybe just stay home for us? And next time, when you have the chance, use your vote for Government who will actually fund the NHS and take care of its staff. "

11 months and 78,000 deaths on from the start of the outbreak, parts of the UK will now demand negative tests to enter the country.

The new variants are highly transmissible and behind a surge in coronavirus cases in parts of the UK.

Hard-up nurses, cleaners and midwifes were forced to shell out up to £2.50 an hour just to park at work, says GMB Union.

One in 30 people in the capital are thought to have been infected with the virus.

Sir David Clementi – the current BBC chairman – is due to step down next month.

It comes as the Washington Post and Miami Herald join Democrats in arguing the president's Cabinet should remove him under the 25th Amendment.

The i says Donald Trump incited protesters by instructing them: “We will never concede”.

The dead included a woman who was shot by US Capitol Police as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies”.