Scenes of commuters rushing to leave London have been called ‘utterly predictable’, after the capital was given just eight hours notice before being plunged into lockdown.
Video footage on social media shows huge queues at St Pancras station, as people rushed to catch the train to Leeds, potentially joining family members and loved ones for Christmas, while they still could.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has criticised the decision to put London and the South East into a strict tier four lockdown.
The outgoing US President laid into Boris Johnson after the British PM announced stringent new measures to contain the spread of Covid-19.
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