Fewer adults are practising social distancing than think it is important, figures for Great Britain show.

When challenged on this apparent double-standard, he said: “That is a very fair point. As I say, we’ve all got our role to play in this and we, the people standing up on this stage, we’ve got our public roles, as secretary of state, as someone in the NHS, as head of UKSHA [UK Health Security Agency], we’ve got big roles to play.