Boris Johnson's draconian tier system means parts of England with hardly any coronavirus cases - including many countryside picture postcard villages - are being plunged into Tiers 2 and 3.
The Prime Minister reportedly faces a mutiny from up to 70 Tory MPs after laying out which areas would be subject to which tiers, with only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly in Tier 1 - amounting to 714,000 people.
In a huge beefing up of the maligned tier system that failed to stem the second wave, 99% of the country was put in Tiers 2 and 3.
The PM insisted that "your tier is your own destiny" and that areas will be able to move down the tier system. But Professor Chris Whitty indicated that Tier 2 measures are unlikely to reduce