The Prime Minister has resisted pressure to lift the lockdown, saying he does not want to “throw away” the good work the British people have put in to sticking to the restrictions.
Speaking outside Downing Street on his first day back at work since being struck down by the illness over three weeks ago, Boris Johnson said that there are “real signs” we are passing through the peak.
He added that “If this virus was a physical assailant – a mugger – then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to floor. his is the moment of opportunity. This is the moment we can press home our advantage but this is a moment of high risk.”
He said that he could see the long term consequences of lockdown describing it as being the Government’s urgency but that he also recognised the risk of a second spike.”
On the move out of lockdown he said “One by one we will fire up the engines of this vast UK economy. But we simply cannot spell out how fast or slow or even when those changes will be made. I want to serve notice now that these decisions will be made with maximum transparency. We will be relying, as ever, on the science.”
Further details will be outlined “in the coming days”, but Johnson cautions that the government cannot yet say when these changes will be made.
