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"If you can’t trust the prime minister to make sure the rules he made were followed, what can you trust him to do?”
″I want to put this in my back pocket for when you come back in a month’s time and he’s got more convictions," she said.
The transport secretary insisted the prime minister is "mortified" at breaking his own lockdown rules.
“Make of that what you will,” Burley concluded after James Cleverly dropped off air.
"If someone thinks they might have flu, they don’t need to take a test. They recognise the symptoms, ideally you stay away from work."
In an interview released last night, the prime minister controversially doubled down on the comment, saying: “As far I’m aware, it’s fairly accurate.”
The health secretary said there have not been reported deaths from the new variant.
Burley pointed out that the prime minister promised no one would have to sell their homes for social care at the last election.
"I’m only doing what you normally do, but carry on," the health secretary said when the news presenter tried to ask a question.
"If they haven’t got vaccinated by now, then there is an issue with patient safety," the health secretary said.