Today is the day that we enter lockdown number three, or at least it is expected to be. Boris Johnson is to make an address to the nation at 8pm, but ITV’s Robert Peston apparently already knows what he is going to say.
I wonder why there is an eight hour delay between announcing the address and making the address, if the content is already known, other than theatre and giving the speechwriters time to come up with more bombastic wartime metaphors. Sturgeon simply announced Scotland’s lockdown during the day.
Back on Brexit, and there haven’t been any long tailbacks at the ports, but Bloomberg reports that it may be the calm before the storm due to pre-Brexit stockpiling leaving traffic levels even lower than they usually are in the New Year.