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

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll be

examining the great unlocking Boris Johnson's decision to relax the two meters

social distancing route and reopen swaths of the UK's economy.

Plus, we'll be digging into the comings and goings in the Labour Party and the top of Whitehall.

Why the Labour leader Kiestama, Sakra Beck along Bailey from his top team,

and why Mark Sedwell is expected to soon be out as head of the civil service.

I'm delighted to be joined by our columnist Robert Shrimsley, health editor Sarah Neville, political editor

George Parker, and chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard.

Thank you all for joining.

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July the 4th has been called Super Saturday or Britain's Independence Day.

To most people it's simply the day that much of the UK's closed economy starts up again.

The Prime Minister announced this week that pubs, restaurants, cinemas, museums and

art galleries will all reopen come next weekend and business will be a little more back to normal

thanks to the Prime Minister's decision to relax the two-meter social distancing rule.

So Robert Shrimsley let's look at the grand reopening. It really felt as if this was the moment the politics

and the economics of coronavirus overtook the science, particularly on social distancing.

Why do you think Mr Johnson decides to open up the economy quicker than I think a lot of people expected?

Yeah, I think you summed it up very well, said. I think that it is about the politics and the economics as much as it is about the science.

Although of course one can't exactly ignore the science because if the virus starts to flare up again badly,

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