the labour mp and shadow health minister, alex norris, said his party was supportive of the govenment could go further. the government's plan b has always been our plan a. we think mask wearing should be commonplace in public spaces. we should work people —— with think people should be able to work from home. particularly where we want them to go further as on the boosterjabs. i don't want to decry the vaccination programme because it has been very successful over the last year, but with regards to boosters, the goal is to do half a million a day so we have all the over 40s boosted by christmas, we are a long way below that. what the prime minister has announced later, 6 million over the next two weeks, is below that rate as well. we want to see the booster programme listed as well, we want to seek community facilities used, our nations pharmacies used. getting those boosterjabs out is going to be crucial. we think we can go further there. and our political correspondent, iain watson said the prime minister wanted to be seen to act quickly in the face of a new threat. he went earlier

the labour mp and shadow health minister, alex norris, said his party was supportive of the govenment go further. well, the government's plan b has always been our plan a. we think that mask wearing should be, you know, commonplace in public spaces. especially indoors. we think that people should be able to work from home, where that is possible, you know, i think we should have been doing all of those things already, so of course we want people to be doing that now. particularly where we want them to go further now is on the boosterjabs. you know, i do not want to decry the vaccination programme, it has been very successful over the last year, but with regards to boosters, you know, the goals were to do half a million a day, so that we have all those over a0 boosted by christmas. we are a long way below that and what the prime minister has announced today, 6,000,000 over the next three weeks, is below that rate, too. he talked about boosting the booster programme, we want to see that as well, we want to see community facilities used, we want to see our nation's pharmacies used better

let's speak to the labour mp and shadow health minister, alex norris.in addition to talking about this further travel restrictions, pcr testing for people coming back into the uk but also face coverings in shops and on public transport in england, does that make sense to you?- public transport in england, does that make sense to you? yeah, we are su ortive that make sense to you? yeah, we are sunportive of — that make sense to you? yeah, we are supportive of these _ that make sense to you? yeah, we are supportive of these measures. - that make sense to you? yeah, we are supportive of these measures. we - supportive of these measures. we were very critical with regards to the delta variant which was allowed to spread more quickly than it should have done because of our lax border control. of course, a return to wearing facemasks in public spaces, we have said that as the cost of everything we could have been carrying on anyway. i don't think we should ever have stopped doing that. we are broadly supportive of what has been announced today. he supportive

and also from the health secretary and also from the shadow public health and patient safety from alex norrisand at the earliest possible moment, so from midday today six countries on the travel red list and anyone not from the uk or ireland will be denied entry to the uk and any irish residents returning to the uk must enter hotel currency and anyone who has arrived in the last ten days will be contacted by nhs test and trace and he reminded that the pandemic is far from test and trace and he reminded that the pandemic is farfrom over. let�*s try to get us up—to—date with what we know and what we don�*t know at the moment. professor claire bryant is an immunity specialist from the university of cambridge and joins me now. thank you very much for your time today and on the question of what we know and don�*t know, how has the new variance emerge? we were told earlier in the pandemic that if there were significant transmission community transmission there was the possibility of new strains of the virus emerging.— virus emerging. coronavirus is notorious _ virus emerging. coronavirus is notorio