Latest updates: health secretary says ‘people need to keep respecting the rules’ as first vaccines are delivered

The Sky News presenter Kay Burley did not present her breakfast show on Tuesday morning after being placed under review when she admitted to holding a 60th birthday party that broke Covid regulations, my colleague Archie Bland reports.

Related: Kay Burley absent from show after admitting coronavirus rule breach

In his broadcast interview Boris Johnson was also asked if he would keep working for a deal with the EU “right up to the wire”. He replied:

Of course. We’re always hopeful. But there may come a moment when we have to acknowledge that it’s time to draw stumps, and that’s just the way it is. But we will prosper mightily, as I’ve always said, under any version, and if we have to go for an Australian solution, then that’s fine too.

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