BREAKING: ‘Don’t let your country down’, PM warns public before ‘Super Saturday’
Pubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers in England have all been given the green light to open tomorrow – but fears are rife the changes could spur a spike in Covid-19 cases, as theSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference today, the prime minister said the public needed to focus on ‘supporting the livelihoods of businesses across country’ – but needed to do so ‘responsibility’.
The Tory leader said businesses and workers had put in a ‘heroic effort’ to prepare for July 4 and the success of their livelihood, the economy and whole country was dependent on everyone following social distancing rules.He added: ‘The virus is still with us and the spike in Leicester has shown that – if it starts running out of control again this Government will not hesitate in putting on the brakes and reimposing restrictions.
John Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation in England and Wales, has expressed concern, calling Saturday a ‘perfect storm’. He told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme: ‘To ease the lockdown – which I completely understand, businesses have to survive and the economy must grow and I accept that – but to announce this easing of lockdown on a Saturday has created almost a countdown to carnival.
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