What will the government’s roadmap out of lockdown look like? That’s a question being asked frequently as ministers get to work on a plan for easing restrictions. Given that Boris Johnson isn’t due to announce the details until next Monday, it’s a moving picture — with new data continuing to inform the proposals. Speculation aside, the Prime Minister spoke in a broadcast interview today over his strategy for easing the lockdown.
Johnson said that he would be pushing for a ‘cautious but irreversible’ approach — in the hope that a cautious approach would mean that a fourth lockdown was avoided. He said that where possible the government would give dates for the various stages of reopening — but would also reserve the rights to push these back if the data coming in warranted it.
The most illuminating part of the interview was about how the government views living with Covid in the long term.
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