The prime minister failed to address the one question we want answered.
. “You can sit in the sun in your local park, you can drive to other destinations, you can even play sports but only with members of your own household.
Instead, many of the people we hold closest to us – the people who have provided us with the emotional support to get through the past seven weeks of lockdown – were simply grouped together as “those outside of our household”. As though we all have the luxury of sharing a house with people we are close to. As though there aren’t countless people currently self-isolating alone, or far apart from their loved ones.
Adding further to the general confusion surrounding the government’s new guidance, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab then shared a slightly different message with the nation this morning, telling BBC Breakfast that: “If you’re out in the park and you’re two metres apart… andThe government has since clarified that this applies to meeting only one other person from outside of our household – so for instance, you could now see your parents outside of both of your homes, but you could only see one of...
However, Johnson also urged the nation to “avoid public transport if at all possible” last night, so if you are unable to walk or cycle to see your family and friends, as many of us are, the new guidelines probably won’t change a thing.
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