something, to update the public on what the government is thinking at this point and whether there is going to be a change of approach from the government between now and christmas. so far they have said the most important thing is for people to get their boosterjab, plan b restrictions are in place as well. meaning masks in public places and more people working from home. in the last hour we had the senior conservative backbencher mark harper, former chief whip and one of the chairs of the covert recovery group covid recovery group, he said not telling the public what is going on is unacceptable, there are big decisions affecting the lives of everyone and people s livelihoods and mental well being across the country are being affected and we deserve to see the data ministers see. show us your workings, she says. conservative backbenchers
strategy from the government has been to hope this goes away, and there was a hope that by saying, fuel is not going to run out, it is about what is going on at forecourts and if people act normally this situation will disappear, but the hope from ministers was that woodwork and that is why there was so much emphasis in whitehall last week on the statement from the industry was that would work. the statement said stick to your normal habits and they will not be a shortage, and i have got to say, there seems to be cautious optimism in government that the strategy is starting to pay off. the data ministers are getting through daily at the moment about distribution suggests to them about the situation is starting to stabilise at petrol stations, but that does not mean if you go out this afternoon, you won t see some queues, because it could take a couple of days before the
chris ready has been talked about the circumstances where ministers might need to trigger what is already being called plan b. the delta variance is a bad variant, let s be the delta variance is a bad variant, let s be clear, it is a very bad variant and let s be clear, it is a very bad variant and that is what we have had so much variant and that is what we have had so much trouble over the last year. we ve so much trouble over the last year. we ve not so much trouble over the last year. we ve not fit so much trouble over the last year. we ve not fit a winter with the delta we ve not fit a winter with the delta variance, so it is possible the combination of winter events plus the the combination of winter events plus the delta variance is highly transmissible could lead to a situation transmissible could lead to a situation where on the base of the data ministers could decide they want data ministers could decide they want to data ministers could decide they want to