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Two big gaps in Boris Johnson's lockdown statement

11 May 2020

6:03 AM

11 May 2020

6:03 AM

There were three messages in Boris Johnson’s address to the nation, and quite a lot of important gaps.

The messages were:

  1. Because the Covid-19 epidemic has been tempered but not eliminated, lockdown continues – though will be modified very gradually;
  2. It would be a jolly good thing if a few more of us could return to work, especially on construction sites and in factories, so long as that can be done in a way that does not imperil health;
  3. The pace at which lockdown is modified, and whether it is modified at all, is in the collective hands of the British people, and will...

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