Britain must not ‘yo-yo’ in and out of lockdown, says Raab

Britain must not “yo-yo” in and out of lockdown, Dominic Raab has warned as the government prepares to delay the easing of restrictions on June 21 by up to a month.

The foreign secretary suggested that the “vast majority of people in this country” will accept a delay if it means that the nation can move out of lockdown “irreversibly”.

He said that the link between coronavirus infections and hospitalisations has been “weakened” but that there remains a question of whether it has been broken.

The prime minister will hold a press conference tomorrow evening to announce the delay after finalising his decision in Downing Street this evening.

“The key point is we want to move out of locked down irreversibly,” Raab told the Andrew