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UK coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces strict lockdown across country – live | |
(32 minutes later) | |
PM says people can only shop for basic necessities, limits exercise to one form a day, restricts travel only to and from essential work and tells UK to stay at home | PM says people can only shop for basic necessities, limits exercise to one form a day, restricts travel only to and from essential work and tells UK to stay at home |
Here’s my colleague Peter Walker on what the new restrictions mean for you: | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has backed the restrictions just announced by the prime minister, said: | |
Minutes after the prime minster’s announcement, police made it clear the details of the enforcement of the lockdown were still being determined. | |
Marin Hewitt, the chair of the National Police Chiefs Council who was at theCobra meeting this evening where the measures were approved, has said: | |
The swingeing lockdown brings huge challenges to police, including a dramatic change in the British style of policing. | |
It is seen as anathema to the British model of policing by consent, and officers being citizens in uniform: “There is absolute reluctance,” said one source. “It’s a total change of policing style.” | |
Officers will hope to use “persuasion” to convince those not complying, and want to avoid flashpoints. | |
With police forces expected to be stretched as officers go sick or have to self isolate, chiefs do not want to have to devote massive resources to enforcing the lockdown – and may not have them. | |
Police planners expect that as the pandemic spreads in the UK, between 20 and 25% of officers may be off work because they have the virus or are housebound themselves | |
And union leaders have lent their backing to the measures: | |
Other political leaders, including the first minister of Wales Mark Drakeford, have delivered their own addresses reiterating the new measures. | |
The former chancellor, Sajid Javid, has said: | |
One key provision that came out of Sturgeon’s press conference was that, while funerals were exempted from the lockdown, attendance must be limited to immediate family. | |
The chief medical officer for Scotland, Catherine Calderwood, says this is no longer a rehearsal for something that might happen. She stresses that lives will be lost if we do not change how we live our lives. | The chief medical officer for Scotland, Catherine Calderwood, says this is no longer a rehearsal for something that might happen. She stresses that lives will be lost if we do not change how we live our lives. |
Referring to enforcement, Sturgeon says this is not guidance or advice, but a “set of rules to be followed”. | Referring to enforcement, Sturgeon says this is not guidance or advice, but a “set of rules to be followed”. |
She says powers of enforcement will be handed to government later this week and they will use them, including empowering the police to issue fines and break up gatherings. | She says powers of enforcement will be handed to government later this week and they will use them, including empowering the police to issue fines and break up gatherings. |
That provides greater clarity on Johnson’s address, in which he did not explicitly set out how the enforcement would work and from where it would derive its authority. | That provides greater clarity on Johnson’s address, in which he did not explicitly set out how the enforcement would work and from where it would derive its authority. |
Echoing Johnson, Sturgeon says the people of Scotland must stay at home. She repeats the limited set of reasons people can leave. You can see those here. | Echoing Johnson, Sturgeon says the people of Scotland must stay at home. She repeats the limited set of reasons people can leave. You can see those here. |
Scotland’s first minster, Nicola Sturgeon, is now delivering an address setting out what the measures mean for Scotland. | Scotland’s first minster, Nicola Sturgeon, is now delivering an address setting out what the measures mean for Scotland. |
She says the restrictions are “difficult and unprecedented”. She says she will not seek to sugarcoat it, but adds they are essential to protect people. | She says the restrictions are “difficult and unprecedented”. She says she will not seek to sugarcoat it, but adds they are essential to protect people. |