It is too early to begin discussing an 'exit strategy' from the current coronavirus lockdown, two government experts said today.
The country is now entering its third week of enforced social distancing. When he announced the strict new measures on March 23, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, currently in hospital with Covid-19, said they would be reviewed every three weeks.
However both Mr Johson's de facto deputy, Dominic Raab, and two government experts all said today it was too early to begin discussing when they be may be relaxed.
Foreign Secretary and first secretary of state Mr Raab said: “The risk right now is if we take our focus off the strategy which is beginning to work, is that we won’t get through the peak as fast as we need