Boris Johnson LANCASHIRE Telegraph readers have welcomed Boris Johnson’s idea of a national tier system replacing the regional ones. The Prime Minister said that a national approach to easing restrictions might be better this time round than regional tiers. The Government will set out its “road map” for the coming months on February 22, following a review of the lockdown, with March 8 targeted as the earliest possible date for reopening schools and easing other measures. When the last lockdown ended, England returned to tiered arrangements which restricted the activities permitted in an area depending on the state of the virus.