Ex-Chancellor Philip Hammond has urged the government to publish a coronavirus exit plan as he insists Britons must go back to work to restart the economy.
The former Conservative chancellor has insisted a plan to allow the economy to escape the lockdown must be published next week, because the country will be “living with Covid” for a long time.
He said the government cannot wait until a vaccine has been developed, in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “The reality is that we have to start reopening the economy.
But we have to do it living with Covid,” he said. “We can't wait until a vaccine is developed, produced in sufficient quantity and rolled out across the population.