Boris Johnson to stick with 'cautious' lockdown roadmap as he hails schools reopening

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Johnson told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: “We have always said that in a vaccination programme of this pace and this scale, some interruptions in supply are inevitable.

direct to your inboxThe Prime Minister gave a Downing Street press conference on Monday as millions of pupils returned to school for the first time since January.Boris Johnson described the first date on the Government's roadmap out of lockdown as as an 'emotional day' and hailed teachers and parents for their 'astonishing work'.

It's Kenneth Branagh as you've never seen him before. For an actor who has donned insane mustaches (as detective Hercule Poirot) and a wide array of Shakespearean costumes, the first still of him as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's TV drama This Sceptred Isle is perhaps Branagh at his most unrecognizable.

60-year-old actor will play the British Prime Minister in the new Sky Atlantic drama.The five-part series will chart the events surrounding the Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.Kenneth’s casting as Bojo was first announced last month, and now the first look image of him as the PM shows his utter transformation into the 56-year-old politician.Kenneth has swapped his neatly trimmed brown hair for Boris’ trademark wild blonde locks

Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its upcoming Michael Winterbottom series This Sceptred Isle.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSky has unveiled the first look at Kenneth Branagh playing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the forthcoming drama “This Sceptred Isle.”Production has begun on the Fremantle-produced drama, which charts the events surrounding Johnson, his government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.The Sky Original drama will air on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW TV in 2022.

direct to your inbox The roadmap revealed by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, this afternoon, sets out the easing of restrictions by the end of next month - in time for the Easter break.

The government is this afternoon unveiling its roadmap out of the third national lockdown - in the hope of returning life close to normality in June.Its four-step plan, beginning with all school and college pupils returning on March 8, aims to gradually reopen society and the economy over the next four months, although it stresses every stage will be dependent on what the data on vaccinations, hospitalisations, infection rates and deaths say.Ultimately it aims to scrap all legal limitations to

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson announced his lockdown roadmap today - setting out the earliest dates where rules and restrictions in place across the country could be eased.The Prime Minister was speaking in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, where he outlined the dates specific rules could be eased in England.It included pubs and restaurants being able to open outdoors from mid-April and household mixing being possible in an indoors setting from mid-May.

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson has unveiled his long-awaited roadmap out of lockdown. It comes weeks after the country was plunged into a third national lockdown at the start of the year amid rapidly rising coronavirus cases.