So Shapps is saying, in essence, that self-isolation should begin *not immediately* but only once you are satisfied with your childcare arrangements, that cross-country travel is permitted to fulfil that condition, and that the rules said as much all along.

And by implication, anyone who would have done what Cummings did but chose not to because they thought it wasn't allowed is a mug.

To those who were ill, obeyed the rules, stayed in their actual home, worrying about what might happen to them and their children if the illness turned severe, didn't stay with family, for example, the government message today: that was your own stupid fault.