Working parent

With nurseries still open, parents of young children face an impossible choice, writes Irene Cantizano Bescós.

“They can ask for that and (it) should be taken seriously,” Boris Johnson’s press secretary, Allegra Stratton, tells reporters.

Labour leader also calls on scientists "in the next few hours" to set out what further lockdown restrictions are needed.

Expensive and patchy childcare options should not be accepted as inevitable, writes policy and research consultant Dr Dalia Ben-Galim.