if, for example, this week you interview, as i have, the mayor of liverpool city region and you get thee he feels about borisjohnson and the comments that he made in the past about liverpool and the hillsborough disaster, you get much more of a sense of why, for him to now work with a tory government regarded by many people in liverpool as something you should never, ever do, you get a sense of who he is and why the choices he's got to make are so difficult. one of the complaints that we heard in the two comments i read at the beginning was from a viewer who thinks that, actually, bbc interviewers too often let politicians get away with not answering the question, talking out the time. what would you say? well, it is complete we get all the time, and we also get people saying you interrupt too much. and they are both two sides of the same coin. we cannot force people to answer, there's this myth that if ijust ask it well enough, or sharply enough to i will get an answer. i won't. i think we have to treat the audience like grown—ups. we have to ask difficult questions, we occasionally ha

from tomorrow, livable city region and warrington should be in tier 2, whereas previously, obviously, they we re whereas previously, obviously, they were in tier 3. —— liverpoolmunities, to follow this path. that is why, with the help of our fantastic armed forces, will be offering community testing to tier 3 areas as quickly as possible. mr speaker, let mejust say, i will give way to my right honourable friend. i'm grateful to the prime minister. what assessment has he done of compliance with previous lockdowns? does he share my concern that people have just had enough and the risk of noncompliance is very great and those who are compliant will then have the added frustration of watching those who will not comply doing whatever they wa nt will not comply doing whatever they want whilst they have to sit at home? normally i find myself in agreement with my right honourable friend, but i must say, i do not think she is right in this instance, because if you look at what the british people have achieved in the last few weeks, by following the guidance, by deciding to work together to get the r down, they have done just that. they have done that collectively. the

we looked on liverpool city region, 1.5 million. greater manchester, 2.8 million.ing but a precise lockdown. 0ther million. anything but a precise lockdown. other countries as well like south korea and vietnam have used a similarly targeted approach to contain the virus with spectacularly better results and we have achieved. south korea hasjust ten deaths per million population. vietnam is even more successful with about half of deaths per million population. these measures will undoubtedly go through today but i will not be voting for them. only come to put on them i will expect that next time in early february according to the prime minister i hope there will be massively —— they will be massively more targeted. we must will be massively more targeted. we m u st follow will be massively more targeted. we must follow the example of germany, south korea and others by having restrictions imposed on a much smaller area. they work better, they are more fairand smaller area. they work better, they are more fair and they cost much less economic damage. we don't know for

if, for example, this week you interview, as i have, the mayor of liverpool city region and you get there so difficult. one of the complaints that we heard in the two comments i read at the beginning was from a viewer who thinks that, actually, bbc interviewers too often let politicians get away with not answering the question, talking out the time. what would you say? well, it is complete we get all the time, and we also get people saying you interrupt too much. and they are both two sides of the same coin. we cannot force people to answer, there's this myth that if ijust ask it well enough, or sharply enough or clearly enough, i will get an answer. i won't. i think we have to treat the audience like grown—ups. we have to ask difficult questions, we occasionally have to ask them two or three times. we have to highlight when we don't get an answer, but we need to treat the audience as people who can observe that they have not got the answer and then we move on. what we shouldn't do is talk over politicians such that people would end up wondering, well why did he have them on in the firs