Coronavirus vaccines will be not be made compulsory in the UK but everyone should get a jab as soon as they are available, Boris Johnson has said.
The Prime Minister made it clear that no one would be forced to be vaccinated, saying: "That's not the way we do things in this country".
However he tore into anti-vax propaganda and said everyone should be "very, very pro vaccine". Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson estimated that the majority of people could be inoculated by Easter if there was "a favourable wind".
It comes amid growing optimism over the prospect of workable vaccines, with encouraging preliminary results from jabs developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the US firm Moderna.