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Hi, I'm Anouche and I'm Steven.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we discuss the road to unlocking from lockdown and you ask us,

why do Labour and the Conservatives never follow the evidence on drug policy?

So we're recording as Boris Johnson is about to announce his plan for easing the lockdown to Parliament,

so we don't know everything that he's going to say yet, but the news will be coming in.

At the moment, we know of the first part of his four-part plan and that's kind of in two parts, isn't it?

So it's to have schools reopening from the 8th of March and also allowing two people to meet up

where you'll be allowed to sit down for a coffee or a picnic.

From the 29th of March, they'll be outdoor gatherings of either six people or two households allowed

and that could potentially be in people's gardens as well.

And then outdoor sport is likely to restart from that date as well.

But the government is giving sort of four tests that each of the lockdown restriction easings have to meet.

And those four tests are a bit different from what we were tracking last time around, aren't they?

Yes, and it's certainly occurred to me that I, in fact, don't need to worry about breaking the embargo on the press release

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