"Today’s employment report is unlikely to make pleasant reading. Forward projections expect the rate to top out close to 7% as the Pandemic will continue to hit business output for several months to come. Today's data is expected to see the rate climb above 5% although the claimant count may fall marginally from November’s high figure of 65k.

This Government, which had been elected barely a single quarter before the Pandemic hit has faced several issues in trying to deal with both the social and economic fallout, has faced the additional irritants of an opposition that has no chance of coming to power for five years questioning and criticizing its actions together with a press that continues to ask questions with no answers.

There are growing demands for the Prime Minister to provide a timetable for the return of children to schools when it was only a month ago the demand was for schools to close.

Health Secretary Nick Hancock at yesterday’s press briefing was bombarded with demands from the media to provide a roadmap out of lockdown. His response was unequivocal in that there will be no change in policy until the four most at risk groups are vaccinated and that programme is on track to be complete by the target date of 15th February.

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