"Please could I ask you a favour? Instead of clapping for us, could you maybe just stay home for us? And next time, when you have the chance, use your vote for Government who will actually fund the NHS and take care of its staff. "
He has also suggested demonstrators calling for racial equality should be targeted with water cannons while he also referred to illegal immigrants as a 'swarm'.
The Tweet was described as an “appalling and completely unworthy analogy”, adding: “Have you taken leave of your senses equating the two?
"The President is inciting domestic terrorism. I'm safe, but this is a sad day for America."
After yet another U-turn, we tallied every time Boris Johnson has changed his mind about Covid-19.
Schools across the country have been shut, "but only after allowing them to be open for one day so everyone could infect each other and take the virus home."
The statement, to be made at 8pm on Monday, will be followed by the recall of Parliament on Wednesday so MPs can debate the measures.
Meanwhile London’s top market hit its highest point in nine months on Monday as traders across Europe kicked off the new year by celebrating the rollout of a new vaccine in the UK.
"People are going to ask where all this money has come from” after the crisis, Laurence Boone said.