Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne.

In this week's episode, we'll be discussing, you've guessed it, the latest in the

coronavirus crisis.

We'll be looking at how the government is doing on testing, will it hit its 100,000 tests a day target by this time next week.

Plus, there's a new test track and trace program announced by Matt Hancock, which offers a hint of how the UK is going to exit the lockdown.

Plus we've also heard the Boris Johnson might soon be returning to work and when he does he's facing

a cabinet split about how and when to end the lockdown through a potential three-stage timetable.

We've also got Rischisunach's pledge to help small businesses

question times. To go through all that, I'm delighted be joined remotely

of course by our political editor George Parker,

columnist Robert Shrimsley and global health

editor Sarah Neville. Thank you all for joining and if you find yourself liking

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and thank you once again for sticking with us throughout these unusual times.

We hope the quality is listenable.

Testing has been a constant problem for Boris Johnson's government. When the coronavirus

crisis hit the UK, it originally began by testing everybody diagnosed or suspected of having the virus, but as it spread rapid throughout

the country, testing focused on frontline health care workers, and consistently the government

has struggled to hit its target.

Eventually, Matt Hancock said that the government would have 100,000 tests a day

by the end of April. With one week to go, it has the capacity for 51,000 tests but it isn't testing anywhere near

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