The Prime Minister has directly addressed the nation to thank Brits for respecting the rules so far and encouraging them to continue to do what is needed to "defeat the coronavirus" which he described as "the most vicious threat this country has faced in my lifetime"

It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war. And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. You have put up with all the hardships of that programme of social distancing. Because you understand that as things stand, and as the experience of every other country has shown, it’s the only way to defeat the coronavirus - the most vicious threat this country has faced in my lifetime.