Furious Tories threaten revolt if Boris Johnson scraps June 21 freedom day over Indian variant fears - as Cabinet warns PM there will be trouble if roadmap is not followed
Anxiety swirling about whether the June 21 Covid roadmap date can be kept amid rise of the Indian variant
Professor Neil Ferguson said the next stage of the roadmap is in the balance despite some glimmers of hope
Tory MPs urge Boris Johnson to press ahead with unlocking despite fears over vaccine-hesitant Britons
Latest data shows Indian variant is dominant in 23 parts of England and has spread to 127 areas of the country
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What happens next after thousands got their jab in huge Bolton vaccination push?
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Boris Johnson could declare as soon as next week that Britain is back on track to lift the lockdown, after new figures showed Covid cases are still falling despite the Indian variant.
The Prime Minister warned last week there was a ‘real risk of disruption’ to the roadmap out of lockdown because of the emergence of the fast-spreading strain.
Yesterday he said the ‘wall of defences’ built up by the vaccination programme appeared to be limiting the impact of the variant, while warning that ‘a few more days’ of data were needed to be sure.
But optimism among ministers was rising last night, buoyed by the sight of people queuing for jabs in hotspot areas such as Bolton, and official data showing that the epidemic is continuing to shrink.
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