This evening’s Downing Street coronavirus press briefing showed that ministers are still focused on enforcement of existing restrictions, rather than introducing even tighter curbs. Home Secretary Priti Patel announced £800 fines for people attending house parties, which will double for each repeat offence, up to a maximum of £6,400. Patel said the police would target the ‘small minority that refuse to do the right thing’, and warned that the police were increasingly enforcing the rules.
Speaking alongside her, NHS England regional medical director for London Dir Vin Diwakar issued a moral warning to members of the public who think it is acceptable to flout the rules. He said:
‘Breaking the rules is like switching on a light in the middle of a blackout in the Blitz. It doesn’t just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk.
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