People are reporting there are no lateral flow tests left on the Gov website

It comes after the Prime Minister confirmed in a televised statement last night that he had ramped up the booster programme, as the deadline to offer all adults a third jab is being brought forward by a month.

The Army will be drafted in and clinic hours extended to help dose 18million people by January 1 – nearly a million a day – as the PM warned of a “tidal wave” of Covid that could overwhelm the NHS and cause “very many deaths”.

This morning, the NHS website was initially putting people in an online queue of more than 5,000 people shortly after 7am, saying that “lots of people are trying to book an appointment.”

Later, a message was displayed that the website was “currently experiencing technical difficulties”, and those trying to book a jab had to go back one webpage and try again.

By 10am, the size of the online queue reached 10,000 people but the website was still not allowing people to book their appointment as it came under intense demand.

Frustrations are growing and now people are taking to Twitter to complain.