The prime minister said he could see nothing in the data to stop him “continuing along our roadmap to freedom”. “In just a few days’ time, I’m finally going to be able to go to the barbers. But more important than that, I’m going to be able to go down the street and cautiously, but irreversibly, I’m going to drink a pint of beer in the pub,” he said. He said “bitter experience” had shown a wave in Europe would tend to hit the UK three weeks later. Speaking at the Conservative spring forum, Johnson sought to credit the private sector and free-market economy with the successes of the vaccine rollout.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2021 13:10 UTC