Baroness Harding - the head of Test and Trace - told a CBI webinar that the most recent tranche of figures revealed that less than 60 per cent of those who tested positive followed advice to quarantine at home.
"But there a number of diehard Remainers who would quite like the UK to break up, if only only to vindicate their claims that Britain would pay a terrible price for Brexit."
It comes as Andrew Neil Tweeted: "But there a number of diehard Remainers who would quite like the UK to break up, if only only to vindicate their claims that Britain would pay a terrible price for Brexit."
“This Government should not be making families pay the price for their broken promises to support councils."
Education leaders said they did not anticipate schools reopening fully until mid-April - or even as late as May.
“It’s just been an absolute nightmare,” Ian Perkes told BylineTV. “If I could turn the clock back, would I have voted Leave? Of course not."
There was also hostility to the proposal in some parts of the Government, with one source saying the plan “incentivises people to catch Covid”.
Billionaire Lord Ashcroft last year gave £175,000 to the Tories and their London mayoral candidate.
Andrew Mills - who served an adviser to the Board of Trade, chaired by Liz Truss - changed his company's status to avoid filing accounts.