Apologies for calling the thing a "press conference!" Very nice of y'all not to pick me up on it.

The focus on vaccination is the right one in my opinion. We're conditioned to look for ulterior motives every time he opens his mouth, which is something he's brought on himself. Like millions of others, I suspect, I'm very glad that he has, as yet, declined to cancel Christmas. I can't help thinking that all the stuff about Tory partying has made that idea politically next to impossible for him. In the end, vaccination is overwhelmingly the most important measure for getting the virus under control, and other measures, in comparison, look like piddling around the edges.

And let's not forget that one of the main reasons that we are where we are is that the Tories have run down the NHS in a concerted way since 2010.