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Some social distancing and mask-wearing rules will stay in place as life returns only “close to normal” in June, Dominic Raab has suggested.
The government is exploring what “extra safeguards” will be needed, even when the end of the current roadmap is reached on 21 June, the foreign secretary said.
Last week, Boris Johnson said there is now a “very good chance” of ending all legal coronavirus restrictions next month, in what was his most bullish assessment yet.
But Mr Raab struck a far more cautious tone, saying: “We’re looking at what extra safeguards, caveats, need to be put in place.
“We want to get to a position, at the end of June, where we can get life back as close to normal as possible, but they’ll still need to be some safeguards in place.”
Asked to explain what he meant, the foreign secretary added: “It will be around distancing, maybe there’ll be something around masks, but I don’t really want to pre-judge. Those are just some of the options.”
But Mr Raab ducked an explosive warning from the Scottish Tory leader that the prime minister will have to quit if he has broken the ministerial code over his lavish flat makeover.
Asked if he should resign if rules were broken – the same demand he made of Nicola Sturgeon, over the Alex Salmond controversy – Douglas Ross replied: “Of course.”
Mr Rabb said the prime minister’s fate was “hypothetical speculation”, while insisting he had “followed the codes of conduct”.
“I think the right thing for me to do is respect the integrity of those reviews and let them run their course – rather than commenting that what may or may not be found,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Programme.
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