Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times?

I'm Sebastian Payne.

In this episode, we'll be delving into this week's coronavirus developments.

Boris Johnson's return to Downing Street,

the first indications of an exit strategy from the

lockdown, whether Matt Hancock is going to hit his 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day

and the UK soaring death rate which is looking very bad by international comparisons.

I'm to like to be joined remotely of course by our political editor George Parker

economics editor Chris Jowes and political correspondent Laura Hughes. Thank you all for joining. If you find

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There was one big development in Westminster this week. Boris Johnson came back to work.

Three weeks after going into St Thomas's Hospital in London for severe coronavirus symptoms,

including several days in intensive care the Prime Minister was

back and he was buoyed by the rival of his baby son. But Boris Johnson's first big task

as ever is to get into this thorny question of the exit strategy,

how the UK is going to get out of the lockdown

now that the peak of the virus appears to have passed.

So George Parker Boris Johnson gave us his first press conference on Thursday and the main thing from the Prime Minister was the government confirming that the worst of this pandemic seems to have passed by some experts say the peak of the virus was a couple of weeks ago

which means now there's even more pressure on this question of what the next phase

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