Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption is among those who have hit out at the punishment, asking why it is harsher than sentences for firearms and child sexual offences.
Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has warned Britons that it is “too soon” to book a holiday, even a staycation. Instead, he advised holidaymakers to wait until February 22 for the Government to make an announcement.
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Entire world’s Covid would fit inside coke can. says maths expert
All the Covid-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes just how much devastation is caused by…