Sunday shows round-up: Lockdown to be eased from 4 July

Matt Hancock: Lockdown to be eased again from 4 July

This morning the Health Secretary Matt Hancock spoke to Nick Robinson, who was filling in for Andrew Marr. Robinson asked about the government’s plans to ease the lockdown after it was announced yesterday that the UK’s alert level was being downgraded from level 4 to level 3, which indicates that transmission of the virus is no longer rising:

MH: This week, we will announce further details of the measures we can take to relieve some of the national lockdown measures… [from] July 4th… That’s part of the plan that we’ve been working through… and the plan is clearly working.

Police did ‘brilliant job’ in Reading attack

Hancock also joined Sophy Ridge and praised the police for their response to yesterday’s knife attack in Forbury Gardens in Reading, where three people have died and more have been injured.