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UK coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces strict lockdown across country – live | UK coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces strict lockdown across country – live |
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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 |
The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) is also moving quickly to squash suggestions police officers would be assisted by troops on the streets or road blocks used to enforce the lock down. A spokesperson for the NPCC has told the Guardian: | |
The government’s guidance on the new restrictions makes clear that those households who are isolating, as well as the most vulnerable people, should follow the guidance they’ve already been given. | |
The document adds that key workers or parents of children already identified as vulnerable can continue to take their children to school. | |
Ken Marsh, the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, has also asked the public for their support, telling Sky News: | |
And the home secretary, Priti Patel, has acknowledged the practical difficulties facing police forces across the country: | |
The national chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, has appealed for the public’s support in observing the new restrictions, saying: | |
A senior police source says the lockdown will involve neither the military on the streets, nor tactics such as road blocks. But details on enforcement are still being hammered out and will continue to be so over the next few days. | |
The former Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has asked the government to provide more information in practice: | |
The DUP’s leader and the first minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, has backed the new restrictions | |
The UK government has now published its guidance on the new restrictions (you can read it here – pdf), including when people should and should not be leaving their homes. | |
Here’s my colleague Peter Walker on what the new restrictions mean for you: | Here’s my colleague Peter Walker on what the new restrictions mean for you: |