Politics

A work from home order and vaccine passports will be announced on Wednesday, it has been reported.

A frontline healthcare worker, whose mother died after catching Covid in hospital, said she feels "taken for a mug".

"Even by his standards, this is absolutely shameful," the former GMB presenter tweeted.

"Not many people are going to be laughing tonight," ITV anchor Tom Bradby said, in a withering critique of the government.

The Department for Education admitted "it would have been better" not to go ahead with a boozy Christmas party.

"After all the sacrifices the people of this country have made, they’re laughing at us. Pretty unforgivable."

"It suggests that, after a week of saying a party did not take place, they currently have no idea how to approach this story", Ian Dunt said.

"On the day you partied, my mother called me, breathless and feverish. I didn’t visit. On the day you joked, she was admitted to hospital. I didn’t visit. As you celebrated Christmas, she died without family by her side. I promise you, it wasn’t funny."

"No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question," Paul Brand said.