Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown moves at a much slower pace than many of his backbenchers would like. Despite, this, the Prime Minister has so far managed to avoid a large backlash from Tory MPs with his blueprint for ending lockdown. While leading figures of the Covid Recovery Group were quick to voice their objections in the Commons chamber over the fact restrictions will be in place until late June, the Prime Minister received a relatively warm reception when he addressed his party via Zoom on Monday evening.
The Prime Minister was 20 minutes late for the call meaning questions were relatively limited. He began by assuring MPs that the government would not adopt a zero covid strategy. Instead, the country would need to manage it like flu. He then offered another car analogy. Having previously likened Covid to a six-hour car journey, Johnson told MPs that they were now at the point when the car is moving into the fast lane — moving from the left lane into the far right lane.
Johnson even received an invite from an MP planning to make the most of the plans to allow weddings
Johnson repeated his line from earlier that he was setting out the dates he had because he values certainty over haste.
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