British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people to obey rules imposed to tackle a rapidly accelerating second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, cautioning that otherwise a tougher lockdown could follow.
New cases of Covid-19 are rising by more than 7,000 per day in the UK though Mr Johnson is facing growing opposition to lockdown measures which have wrought some of the worst economic damage in at least a century.
After a reprimand from the speaker of the House of Commons, Mr Johnson defused a rebellion in parliament over the way such rules were imposed by promising politicians more say over any new national measures.