Robert Jenrick – ‘None of us’ want to return to national lockdown
This morning Andrew Marr interviewed the Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, amid news that the UK’s ‘R’ number (the rate of transmission of the coronavirus) is now estimated at between 1.2 and 1.5, remaining stubbornly above the critical number 1.0. With the Prime Minister poised to announce a new series of restrictions in the Commons on Monday, and despite a warning from the deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam that the country was at a ‘tipping point’, Jenrick told Marr that the government was determined not to wind up in the same position as it had been in March:
RJ: None of us want to return to a blanket national lockdown.
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