😷Only Michael Gove and the newly appointed security minister Damian Hinds were seen wearing face coverings as the Commons was recalled
The majority of Cabinet ministers assembled on Boris Johnson’s frontbench refused to wear face masks on Wednesday as Parliament returned to full capacity for the first time since the pandemic began.
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