still safeguards people's christmas and help people to have a safe christmas this year but what action is necessary to stop the nhs being overwhelmed, particularly into january and fabry. the lesson i have experienced is you need to act sooner rather than later because delaying means severe restrictions for longer. i don't want to see severe restrictions, i don't want to see us plunged into severe restrictions for a long time and so the question is, given we know all of this, why hasn't the government set out a plan? they have known this since thursday, they have access to more live data and information and more live data and information and more policy advice than the opposition parties do. we don't get advice as it were from civil servants or scientists. i don't understand why the health secretary has been on the tv this morning