Is the exit roadmap still what it seemed?

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The next stage of lockdown easing is going as planned, but some caveats around international travel and vaccine passports are being floated for further down the line. What did the government's announcements today clear up? Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.

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0:20.2	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators, Daily and sometimes more than daily
0:24.9	politics podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and Katie Balls.
0:30.6	So as expected, the Prime Minister has announced the next steps out of lockdown in a press
0:35.0	conference this afternoon. Katie, can you give us the headline announcements?
0:39.1	Yes, so there was good news in the sense that Boris Johnson confirmed that the next stage of easing
0:44.2	lockdown, so broadly speaking the second stage, would go ahead in a week's time. And that is when we
0:50.0	become Alphresco Britain, so hospitality can reopen an outdoor setting but I think when it came to
0:55.9	the general thrust of the press conference where there was probably more intrigue was on the various
1:00.3	government reviews because we know the roadmap it was announced near some time ago but actually
1:05.3	lots of the more difficult decisions were put off and placed into government reviews so vaccine
1:10.0	passports foreign travel travel, social distancing.
1:12.6	And although Boris Johnson insisted several times during this press conference at the roadmap was still on track,
1:18.6	nothing in the data suggested really that this was going to have to be delayed at any stage, including that big reopening on June 21st.
1:25.6	It was also clear from the way he was talking and also what's in
1:28.4	this government review that's been published now, that life on June 21st is not going to be a
1:33.9	big ban end of restrictions if it continues in the current direction of travel. So for example,
1:39.6	on vaccine passports, it wasn't so long ago the government were saying that they weren't planning all that
1:45.3	in a domestic arena, really. But Boris Johnson confirmed that this is now something they are looking
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