Boris Johnson is poised to make face coverings compulsory in shops after mounting evidence that they slow the spread of coronavirus.
The prime minister promised last night to get “stricter” on their use and said he was “looking at ways of making sure” that more people covered their faces indoors.
A government source said it was a “fair assumption” that masks would become mandatory in shops and other indoor settings within a few weeks.
Mr Johnson was photographed yesterday wearing a facemask in public for the first time while visiting shops in his Uxbridge constituency after complaints that he was not setting an example.
Asked during a People’s PMQs event on Facebook whether he would make them compulsory in shops, he said: “We need to
