mitigating measures, but not then go to the second and third strands of plan b which would be mandating face masks in crowded indoor settings and also the use of vaccine passports. the government clearly is aware and cautious around the rising numbers but doesn't want to press the button on mandating a change in our behaviour. here is the health minister on breakfast a little earlier. we are seeing infections rising. you saw what the secretary of state said yesterday. and we are seeing hospitalisations and deaths are rising. but at a much lower rate. we don't believe that, even though the nhs is under real pressure, it always is in winter but it is particularly now, that it is under unsustainable pressure and that now is not the right moment to look to trigger plan b. and that notion of unsustainable pressure has always been the government's driving motivation around the implementation of restrictions on our liberties and they don't think we are there yet.