JUST IN: New Year's is going ahead
The health secretary announced the rule change late last night
BREAKING: Christmas is officially happening
'I’ll tell them to shove it and stay open and they can fine me if they want'
JUST IN: No further restrictions will be implemented today
'Lockdowns hurt peoples’ mental health, it obviously hurts the economy and so the government has a difficult job to do…'
Johnson has been presented with three scenarios for tougher restrictions
The Health Secretary said there are 'no guarantees' in this pandemic
'If Omicron really were such a deadly variant, we would expect the numbers to have shot up, yet that simply isn’t happening here'
Australia, New Zealand and Japan are all on the list