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PM Johnson Delivers Statement On New COVID-19 Lockdown

UK

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hasbegun his statement to the newly-recalled House of Commons on the new COVID-19 lockdown coming into place across England.

  • Following the PM's statement, MPs will debate (largely virtually) on the bill giving the new restrictions legal power. The vote on the bill is expected around 1900GMT, and it will pass easily.
  • The Conservative rebels that opposed heightened restrictions in Dec 2020 have largely kept quiet, with the rampant increase in cases, hospitalisations, and deaths from COVID-19 across the UK being seen as an extremely serious situation, even by lockdown-sceptics.

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