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It comes as two million people have now died worldwide with coronavirus.

“Ours has been rather lax, not just for visitors coming into the UK the vast majority of whom do not have covid but we’ve also been rather lax with our quarantine of individuals who have been in direct contact with a case; indigenous cases."

“The facts are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure."

“People are dying waiting for ambulances whilst crews are stuck at hospital with Covid-confirmed patients.”

Also Matt Hancock accused of a “blunder” when contracts with private hospitals which would have given the NHS an extra 8,000 beds were cancelled.

"What was once gunpowder and disease is now replaced with bureaucratic negligence."

"Platforms like Parler attracted a motley crew of ultra-libertarians, violent extremists and conspiracy theorists, as well as more mainstream ‘free speech fundamentalists.’"

Mr Jenrick said he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation’s history, adding this was “at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a ‘cultural committee’ of town hall militants and woke worthies”.

Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told ministers to get a “comprehensive plan and to act in a proper, strategic way, not in the short-term chaotic way we’ve seen over the past twelve months”.