What a difference a day makes

Posted at 12.50pm UK time

What a difference a day makes. Just yesterday, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: '[It] still remains that there is nothing in the data currently to suggest step four [of the lockdown roadmap] can’t go ahead at the earliest date.’

Reports today are far more pessimistic.

A cabinet source says they expect the end of lockdown to be delayed by "between two weeks and a month" following a "fairly grim" briefing given to ministers by the Government's two most senior scientific advisers. https://t.co/j7KXL6HeYp via @LD_Sceptics

— Michael Curzon (@MichaelWCurzon) June 8, 2021

According to one cabinet source, lockdown could be extended by “between two weeks and a month”.

I’ll offer no prizes for guessing who this is down to (since it certainly isn’t down to the data).

A ‘fairly grim’ briefing was given to ministers yesterday by Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.

I report on this for Lockdown Sceptics here.