BORIS Johnson today said it’s “very likely” lockdown will be gone for good on July 19 in a battle cry for Brits to hang on three more weeks. The PM dashed hopes of unlocking early…
New Health Secretary Sajid Javid will later update MPs in the Commons on when lockdown will end.
"So we think it's sensible to stick to our plan to have a cautious but irreversible approach, use the next three weeks or so really to complete as much as we can of that vaccine rollout - another five million jabs we can get into people's arms by July 19. He said: "I want to see the restrictions lifted and life going back to normal as quickly as possible and that's - right here and now - that is my absolute priority."In terms of the roadmap to that you'll have to wait for my statement to Parliament later today. It's going be irreversible. There's no going back."JAVID TO ADDRESS MPS
Step 4 of the government's roadmap out of lockdown was due to see all restrictions lifted on on June 21, but the date was pushed back a month over the spread of the Delta - or Indian - variant."hawk" and has raised concerns over lockdowns and their impact on the economy. Another government source told the newspaper that the Health Secretary was a “real lockdown skeptic” and that the “tilt in the Cabinet had shifted quite considerably”.They added: “I would hope Sajid will look at the data, really analyse it and say 'right what is stopping what is stopping us doing July 5’.”Sajid Javid with the Prime Minister and Mrs Johnson
He has had to shun his advisor jobs with bank JP Morgan, where he used to work, and at a high tech software firm.His disgraced predecessor Matt Hancock quit after his affair was exposedFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith praised the new Covid regulator-in-chief’s words.“We have broken the link between cases and hospitalisations. What more do we want? We don’t need to wait until everyone is fully jabbed, and we need to end the lockdown now. Full stop.
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