the house of commons has approved the
four-week lockdown in england
which starts at midnight tonight people
must stay at home except for valid
reasons including work
education essential shopping exercise
and
medical reasons people can't mix with
other households in homes or in private
gardens
but meeting one person from another
household in a public space
is allowed pubs and restaurants must
close but they can continue deliveries
and takeaways
which in a change of policy by the way
can now include alcohol
non-essential shops and hairdressers
gyms and pools must also close
and there are no exemptions for amateur
sport
while the majority of mps backed the
restrictions the government did face
a sizable opposition from its own back
benches our deputy political editor
vicky young
has been following the story in bristol
today the queuing started early
shoppers making the most of the final
few hours before lockdown
we're crazy go off at our past six just
to get here
maybe more than a month it's gonna be
more than second of december
we don't like it but it's probably
sensible another period of strict
national measures across england wasn't
the plan but boris johnson headed to the
commons to tell mps that once again
he was ordering tight restrictions on
lives liberties and business
speakers all members feel the pain and
anxiety
that we're all going to share in the
month ahead
but as prime minister when i'm
confronted with data
that projects our nhs could even
collapse with deaths in the second wave
potentially exceeding
those of the first i can reach only
one conclusion i'm not prepared
to take the risk with the lives of the
british people
he assured mps that the restrictions
would be time limited
legally expiring on the 2nd of december
the labour leader supports this lockdown
but says it should have happened earlier
as he and many scientists have called
for
there have been huge mistakes made in
recent weeks during this pandemic
we've been told so many times by the
prime minister often on wednesday
afternoon there's a plan to prevent a
second wave
it's working well there wasn't
and it didn't and now less than four
months after the prime minister told us
that this would all be over by christmas
we're being asked to approve emergency
regulations to
shut the country down and many
conservatives aren't convinced
the business case against it is
overwhelming for me madam deputy speaker
the case is not proven the measures
proposed are not proportionate
and i can't vote for them by putting
down legislation how people live their
lives
in their private homes that is not a
space we should enter easily
madam deputy speaker it stinks whatever
the problem
collapsing the economy and destroying
people's jobs and livelihoods
can never be the right solution although
the government easily won today's vote
some conservative mps are already
anxious about what might happen in
december and beyond
these regulations will disappear but
it's not clear
exactly what will replace them and some
mps fear that a return to normality
is a very long way off boris johnson's
confident tighter measures will get
virus numbers down and says he's more
optimistic than he's been for months
businesses forced to close tonight might
not share that sentiment
vicki young bbc news westminster