coronavirus restrictions, but now there are calls for the country to go into national lockdown. Coronavirus infection rates are climbing higher as the new, highly transmissible strain of the virus continues to spread.
Now Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being used to plunge the country into national lockdown in the hope it would slow the spread.
Mr Johnson has warned “there’s no question” the government will have to enforce tougher lockdown measures, and that they will be announcing them in “due course”.
But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the PM to introduce a national lockdown immediately. Reports also circulated last week about the government possibly bringing in a new Tier 5.