Boris Johnson has announced a raft of new measures in a bid to get Covid-19 transmission under control - with the hospitality sector bearing the brunt.
The latest restrictions are aimed at slowing the spread of the virus without resorting to a national lockdown, as the Government blames socialising for the surge in infections.
But Johnson faces a backlash from his own backbenchers, angry at his Government's sweeping lockdown restrictions. Leading a Tory revolt, Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the influential 1922 Committee of backbenchers, said: “The trouble with authoritarianism is it’s profoundly inimicable to civil liberties - it is also increasingly incompetent. “It relies on acquiescence, and acquiescence for lockdowns, particularly