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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectators Daily and sometimes more than daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and we just have the

Prime Minister about his plans for the grand reopening

and here's what he had to say.

I want to stress from the outset

that this pandemic is far from over.

It certainly won't be over by the 19th.

As we predicted in the roadmap in February,

we're seeing cases rise fairly rapidly.

There could be 50,000 cases detected per day by the 19th.

And again, as we predicted, we're seeing rising hospital admissions.

And we must reconcile ourselves, sadly, to more deaths from COVID.

James, it was a slightly strange experience watching this press conference

because what the Prime Minister is saying in terms of lifting legal restrictions,

where it's opening all businesses that haven't been able to open,

the cap on all gatherings going,

at end to face masks being mandatory and lots of places,

including public transport, does sound like a big bang reopening, yet he sounded very cautious.

What was going on?

Yeah, I think many people thought with a day when nearly all the COVID legal restrictions were swept away were beacon of victory over Corona Day, with great declarations

that people should go forth and enjoy these newfound freedoms, etc., etc. One of actually today

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