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Why a new lockdown is so difficult for Boris Johnson

1 November 2020

3:27 AM

1 November 2020

3:27 AM

Boris Johnson had set his face against an England-wide lockdown. He rejected the idea when Sage proposed it back in September, lambasted it when Keir Starmer backed it, but today he is announcing it.

What makes this situation so politically difficult for Johnson is that his own parliamentary party is deeply uncomfortable with the idea of an England-wide lockdown.

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