As-it-happened: PM confirms England lockdown easing delay - BBC News
Boris Johnson announces on 14 June that existing coronavirus rules will stay in place until 19 July, amid rising cases of the Delta variant.
Joe Murphy of the Evening Standard asks Sir Patrick if he would be relaxed if infections went back to January levels?

"How high would they have to go before you called the PM and say 'look maybe it is time to slow things down again?'" he asks.

Sir Patrick says: "Realistically if we ever got a very very large wave there would be a very large number of people in hospital but the plan and the vaccination programme is designed precisely to stop that from occurring."

Murphy points out only 36% of Londoners have had second doses of coronavirus vaccine. He asks Prof Whitty how worried he is about this and what he will do to improve the situation?

Prof Whitty says: "On London, let's start with the glass half full, Londoners as in the rest of the UK have shown great enthusiasm for the vaccine. Overall the rates are higher than many countries would really dream of having at this point in time." But he says they are behind other areas by about 10%.

He says: "You are completely right we do need to concentrate... and find the areas with the lowest rates and really push to get them up whatever the reasons are."

He asks the PM if he envisages nightclubs reopening and dispensing with masks and social distancing on what will be hailed the new Freedom Day on 19 July.

The PM replies there are many businesses that need to move beyond social distancing and people are yearning to get back to that so I'm determined to be able to do that by 19 July.

But to achieve an irreversible roadmap you have to be cautious, he says. And that brings the press conference to a close.