Summary
On the day that the PM announces a four-week lockdown in England, Adam, Laura, Chris and Fergus discuss what we know and what it all means.
Studio Director: Danny Cox Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Chris, the good news is that you've gone prime time and you displaced little mix |
| 0:08.8 | from the BBC one Saturday night schedules and then warmed the country up for strictly. |
| 0:13.9 | Yeah, because we were waiting for this news conference with big news as far as England |
| 0:19.2 | is concerned and a lockdown coming later in the week, the press conference due to happen |
| 0:25.3 | at four o'clock, then delayed until five o'clock, where we then told it'll be from five o'clock, |
| 0:31.0 | it actually happened at quarter seven. |
| 0:34.1 | So good news that Chris has now had millions of adoring fans watching him on BBC one. |
| 0:38.3 | The bad news is the reason why it's because, as he was saying, Boris Johnson was doing |
| 0:42.9 | a press conference at Downing Street where he introduced some tough new restrictions for |
| 0:47.1 | England to fight coronavirus that will come in from Thursday after they voted on by Parliament. |
| 0:53.2 | It sounds like but isn't quite back to square one. |
| 0:56.9 | We're not going back to the full scale lockdown of March and April, the measures that I've outlined |
| 1:02.6 | are less prohibitive and less restrictive, but I'm afraid from Thursday, the basic message |
| 1:10.3 | is the same. |
| 1:12.3 | Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. |
| 1:16.7 | We'll discuss what these new restrictions for England actually are, what they mean for |
| 1:20.8 | the whole UK on this emergency edition of newscast. |
| 1:25.9 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:27.7 | What is this virus? |
| 1:29.0 | How does it spread? |
| 1:30.1 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:32.5 | No one's got to have ****ing clue what Brexit is. |
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