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Prime Minister hints at ‘tougher’ restrictions to come

BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show

Boris Johnson kicked off the new year with an appearance on The Andrew Marr show in which he warned of tough weeks ahead for the country. With Covid cases on the rise and concerns among the scientific community that the current restrictions will not be enough to contain spread of the virus, the Prime Minister said that restrictions are ‘alas probably about to get tougher’.

Johnson told Marr that the government was ‘entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down and that may involve tougher measures in the weeks ahead’ – even if that meant doing things in the next few weeks that ‘will be tougher in many parts of the country’. However,

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