Matt Hancock has made a TV appearance warning that sunbathing is illegal and distancing rules are "not a request, it is a requirement in law and people need to follow it".
This comes on the hottest day of the year so far as Britain is baked by a mini-heatwave – so if people want to legally sunbath they will have to do it at home or not at all.
Police have had to close parks because sunbathers have been ignoring coronavirus lockdown rules which state you can only leave your home to buy essential food, medicine, go to work if you can't work from home, and exercise once a day. "Sunbathing is against the rules that have been set out for important public health reasons," he told Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News. “We are absolutely clear that