It would be laughable if not so serious.
Yesterday he was saying he was reconciled to introducing stricter measures. Repeated the same today but said they first are waiting to see the impact of Tier 4 restrictions on infection rates. But if he is already reconciled to stricter measures, he must already know enough about the infection rates/trajectories to have come to that conclusion, so why delay the implementation?
I think we will now see an announcement later this week, rather than in the next few weeks he spoke about yesterday.
BBC News earlier highlighted a twitter thread from Jeremy Hunt, where he calls for stricter measures immediately - closing schools, closing borders, banning all household mixing.
I couldn't bear him when it was SoS for Health, but in his role of Chair of the Health Select Committee he seems (imo) to speak a lot of sense.