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Boris Johnson defends easing lockdown twice - despite no change in alert level

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Boris Johnson has defended the government's decision to ease lockdown restrictions for a second time, despite the Covid-19 alert level remaining the same.

Before measures were eased for the first time in mid-May, the government introduced a coronavirus alert system which it said the country would move through in its lifting of lockdown.

The country was at level four, which means Covid-19 is still "in general circulation" and "transmission is high or rising exponentially", when it was introduced - and remains at the same level now, the second highest on the scale, the prime minister has admitted.

Prime Minister Mr Johnson was quizzed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on the current level during today's PMQs. But he insisted the alert system

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