As a relaxation of Christmas lockdown rules looks to have had the green light, we can reveal that almost two-thirds of people surveyed believe that the restrictions shouldn't be softened at all.
And 55 per cent say they won't be forming a bubble with anyone else despite the Government allowing up to three households to mix during the five-day period from Wednesday, December 23 to Sunday, December 27.
The Manchester Evening News survey saw 4,822 people post responses in less than 24 hours. Of those, some 4,239 - or 88pc - believe that people will break the rules over Christmas anyway.
The survey revealed that just one in four - 25% - of people would be taking full advantage of the relaxation and meeting up with two other households and 23% would be spending time with one other.
Nearly half - 46% - thought that there should be a national lockdown during the Christmas period.
And three quarters of those surveyed - 75% - are worried about the impact on the NHS of relaxing rules.
UK leaders were under pressure to review the five-day plan as Covid infections continue to rise in Wales and parts of south-east England.
On Tuesday the British Medical Journal and Health Service Journal published a rare joint editorial calling for the “rash” decision to relax social distancing measures over the festive period to be scrapped.
They said that the government “is about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives”.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of having “lost control of infections” and warned that “the situation has clearly taken a turn for the worse since the decision about Christmas was taken”.
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that discussions on Wednesday morning had resulted in "unanimous agreement" between the four UK nations "that we should proceed in principle with the existing regulations because we don't want to criminalise people's long-made plans".
And he added at a Downing Street press conference this afternoon that he hoped people would regard the limits as maximums and not targets, He also asked people to reduce contact with others in the run up to the relaxation period and not to travel from high to low prevalence areas or to make overnight stays.
