As government ministers avoid putting a date on an easing of restrictions, let alone an end to them, scientific advisers have stepped in to fill the silence. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam has suggested the lockdown could remain in place well into spring while Professor Neil Ferguson – who briefly stood down from his role last year for breaking lockdown rules – has suggested measures could be in place until the autumn. This, however, is not going down well with the Tory MPs who make up the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group.
As the Sun reports, Steve Baker has issued a rallying call to his fellow members over the situation. He suggests that opposition to restrictions will soon become a question of leadership – and Boris Johnson’s future as Prime Minister. Baker says the debate will become ‘about the PM’s leadership if the Government does not set out a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter’.
In order to hammer this point home to No.
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