The Health Secretary has appeared to rule out mandatory vaccinations, describing them as "unethical" after the Prime Minister called for a "national conversation".

Sajid Javid said he had "no interest" in making Covid-19 jabs required by law, hours after Boris Johnson raised the prospect of this draconian policy being considered.

But in a press briefing on Wednesday evening to announce new curbs to tackle the omicron variant, the Prime Minister said the country could not “keep going indefinitely” introducing restrictions “just because a substantial proportion of the population still sadly, has not got vaccinated”.

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