It's all duck-it science to blundering Boris

You know that virus that’s been going round. Well, they’re going to start testing people who come into the country, to see if they’re carrying it, before letting them in.

- MARK STEEL

Isn’t it reassuring to know the Government acts this quickly, before coronavirus spreads and does much damage?

Some people suggested they should have done this many months ago, like many other countries.

But they couldn’t know in advance that a virus which spreads from one person to another might spread from someone who has it, to someone else.

You can’t expect politicians to be biologists, can you?

It’s the same with all their decisions.

Everyone could see it would be disastrous to keep schools open.

Five-year-olds were saying: “Why go school when virus spread, Mummy? Does Mister Johnson love virus?

“Does he want to marry it?”