![]() ![]() Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. The data today suggests we live in a country that might not do that. It needs complete compliance from the country at large to work. It doesn’t need 50 per cent-plus support. The public might be annoyed and distrustful of politicians but it seems most would be prepared to go along with new restrictions.īut a lockdown isn’t a public policy designed to win a particular set of votes in a particular set of marginal seats. A recent poll by Savanta ComRes found majority support (albeit just 51 per cent) for a two-week lockdown starting in December. The vaccine roll-out is currently the only government measure to receive public approval, and to a lot of Brits, it has been regarded as this pandemic’s silver bullet: the passport to no further worry about anything Covid-related.īut whether this means the population will truant in the face of a new lockdown is yet to be seen. Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates.Here we have a country that, in my mind, has convinced itself of its invulnerability to coronavirus. ![]() Our verdict Mr Hancock did say this, but it was not until 23 March 2020 that Boris Johnson told the country that people ‘must’ stay at home and certain businesses must close. There would also be significant and politically painful rows about whether to re-introduce various economic measures, such as the furlough scheme, in the event of another lockdown. The lockdown began on 16 March 2020, when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease. Is the United Kingdom heading back into some kind of lockdown? England’s rising number of Covid-19 cases has got Westminster talking about the government’s fall-back measures to prevent the National Health Service being overwhelmed and the end of modern medicine as we know it.īut the reality is, barring some kind of unexpected change in the balance of forces within the Conservative Party, there is no realistic prospect that the UK will head back into lockdown anytime soon.Īlthough Boris Johnson could introduce further lockdown measures without fear that they would fail to pass the House of Commons, as the Conservative government would be able to count on similar change of position within the Labour Party, there is no prospect of a further full England-wide lockdown passing into law without a major rebellion within the Conservative Party, including potentially the cabinet. ![]()
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