well the lockdown in england will end
next week
and then there'll be a return to the
three regional tiers of restrictions
uh the details will come on thursday but
there's already a warning that more
areas
will find themselves in that highest
tier the prime minister said
that in all areas of england the rule of
six returns
up to six people will be able to meet
outdoors
and all shops and gyms swimming pools
and hairdressers will be
able to reopen in tiers one and two
pubs and restaurants will be open but
have to shut by 11 pm
but in tier 3 all hospitality
will remain closed except for takeaways
and deliveries our political editor
laura kinsburg has more details
what will we wake up to next wednesday
in england at least how we have to live
with the virus will change again
after four weeks of closed doors tight
limits on our lives will
loosen once more but just as the prime
minister
is still stuck inside some restrictions
will stay
prime minister boris johnson as he
explained to the comments
from inside number 10. the national
restrictions in england
will end on the 2nd of december
and they will not be renewed without
sensible precautions
we would risk the virus escalating into
a winter
or new year surge the incidence of the
disease
is alas still widespread in many areas
so we're not going to replace national
measures with a free-for-all
uniform instructions that closed pubs
and so many farms
will disappear replaced by a stricter
tier system
where the disease is at its most
dangerous the rules will be drawn
tighter
but the map of who and where is not yet
final
this will be still a hard winter
christmas cannot be normal and there's a
long road to spring but we have turned a
corner
and the escape route is in sight
labor's consistently backed the
government's big decisions on
coronavirus
but will they this time round too early
to say the prime minister proposes a
return to the three-tier system
that's risky because the previous
three-tier system didn't work
tier one areas drifted to tier two
almost all tier two areas ended up in
tier three
and those in tier three couldn't see a
way out and we ended up in national
lockdown
the tier system hasn't always been easy
to explain i think we're just going to
have to stop for a moment to economic
check
boris johnson was struggling to make it
hard when his it
misfired this afternoon it's not our
empire ministry it could well be yours
i wonder if mr hancock would like to
take over with the answer
and this is far from sudden freedom the
disease still very much here
swale in kent is now the second worst
hit area in the country
and businesses aren't sure how people
will react i think a lot of people would
be a bit more cautious um and it might
just stop a few people
going places and doing things like they
usually would or
being a little bit more careful a louise
grove who had the virus
is calling for caution having recovered
from it
it knocks you off your feet i don't want
a lot longer lock down
but i think we're going to have to have
a longer lockdown i think we're going to
have to be a little bit stricter
it's not yet clear how much of england
will be under close controls
wales has recently lifted another
lockdown northern ireland is about to
tighten its rules and scotland is under
five different categories
so no surprise while all four nations
are trying to work out a common plan for
christmas
it's not straightforward i'm afraid the
virus won't take
christmas off so we're trying as hard as
we can to reach
a sensible balance so it is possible
likely in fact that some households
may be able to form slightly larger
bubbles with each other for a
short period over christmas that caution
echoed tonight even by the consummate
optimist the prime minister
talking to the country this is not the
moment
to let the virus rip for the sake of
christmas parties
it is the seasoning to be jolly but it
is also the season
to be jolly careful especially
with elderly relatives yet the virus the
pandemic
has already taken so much change if not
a certain end
is now in sight and hugh a trio of three
important things to hold in your heads
tonight
first of all we do not know exactly what
the map of this new tier
system is going to look like and the
question on many people's minds will of
course be how are the rules going to
affect me
but it's not until thursday that the
government in westminster will actually
say
which parts of england are going to be
in which category
so we're going to have to be patient
until we know that and i think that will
also
shape the extent of the political
pushback to this new system
that there may or may not be both tory
mps
and the main opposition have been a bit
qualified in some of the support that
they may or may not
give to this new system second of all if
you're watching in scotland tonight you
know that there are
five tiers there not three in northern
ireland they're about to tighten up
their restrictions again
and in wales it's not long since they've
exited their short
sharp lockdown so there's still a real
patchwork
across the four different countries of
the united kingdom
and that's why lastly i'm afraid we
can't say to people tonight exactly what
things are going to look like when it
comes to those holidays at christmas
that so many people
want to be able to look forward to the
four different administrations have been
talking about this intensively today
they're trying to figure out a way
forward and i think
it's pretty clear that some deal of some
sort will be done
but there are lots of considerations
about transport
lots of considerations about how many
households should be allowed to get
together
so it's possible but not definite that
there will be a final blueprint for that
tomorrow but apart from anything else
you whatever decisions the politicians
actually make
all of the progress of this whatever
happens in the next few weeks in the
next few months is still
dependent on that one huge factor
how we all respond to rules and
regulations as they change around us
in the time to come laura many thanks
once again laura
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