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Can the lockdown hawks stave off further restrictions?

20 min listen

Boris Johnson today warned that Britain has ‘reached a perilous turning point’ in its battle with coronavirus, as he ordered pubs to close at 10pm and pledged to crack down on rule-breakers. The package of new restrictions were not as sweeping as many Tory MPs had feared, but with the Prime Minister saying that his government could yet ‘deploy greater firepower’, is this just the beginning? Cindy Yu speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls.

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