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Commenting on the news that the housing secretary Robert Jenrick visited his elderly parents, the prime minister’s official spokesman said they were “confident” he had complied with physical distancing rules:
The secretary of state has set out in two different statements the reasons for the journeys which he made.
We’re confident that he complied with the social distancing rules.
Like everybody else, ministers have been told to work from home wherever possible, and not make unnecessary journeys.
As part of the coronavirus response there will be occasions when ministers have no option but to work from Whitehall.
Boris Johnson is in “very good spirits” after being discharged from intensive care, Downing Street has said.
The prime minister’s spokesman said he was “enormously grateful” for the care he had received from NHS staff at St Thomas’ Hospital. He said:
I am told he was waving his thanks towards the nurses and doctors that he saw as he was being moved from the intensive care unit back to the ward.
Hopefully it was clear to the staff that he was waving his gratitude.
The prime minister is back on a ward and continuing his recovery which is at an early stage. He continues to be in very good spirits.
Decisions such as this will be on the advice of his medical team. They have given him brilliant care.
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