PM in ‘back to work’ bid
BORIS Johnson has urged Britons to go back to work if they can, in a significant shift from the Government’s policy of telling people to work from home.
The Prime Minister said people should “try to lead their lives more normally” as restrictions are eased after months of lockdown.
And he hinted that stricter rules on wearing face coverings in public places may be introduced in a bid to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
The Prime Minister said: “I want people to go back to work as carefully as possible. It’s very important that people should be going back to work if they can now.
“I think everybody has sort of taken the ‘stay at home if you can’ – I think we should now say, well, ‘Go back to work if you can’. I want to see more people feeling confident to use the shops, use the restaurants, and get back into work – but only if we all follow the guidance.”
The PM said that as the number of coronavirus cases falls, the rules on wearing face coverings need to be “stricter”.
He said: “I do think we need to be stricter in insisting people wear face coverings in confined spaces where they are meeting people they don’t normally meet.”
Face coverings are currently compulsory on public transport and in hospitals in England.
Johnson later shared pictures of himself wearing a face covering on a visit to businesses in his Uxbridge constituency.