the next couple of weeks. that was something professor chris whitty told the cabinet this morning that he told mps when he did a call with them just before this debate started. sajid javid was trying to explain to his backbenchers that in his view, this was a relatively limited package of measures that were proportionate, the description were proportionate, the description we have heard, and it would be time limited. these expire injanuary. it was particularly the issue when the covid pass that he tried to take on some of the concerns of tory mps and he was emphatic that this was not a covid passport, that people going to nightclubs or big indoor venues good at present held negative lateral flow test or proof of vaccination but it then became clear there were deep conservative reservations and he was a flavour of what the tory backbenchers said. this he was a flavour of what the tory backbenchers said. . . backbenchers said. this was effectively backbenchers said. this was effective