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There are questions about whether new announcements on lockdown restrictions being eased further are too optimistic.

And people do say Boris Johnson is an optimist.

But the prime minister says all of the plans are contingent on people behaving responsibly, they will be reviewed, and he is not ruling out some of these restrictions being put back.

That would be done in a different way, though.

The government is very much hoping a national lockdown won’t be needed again.

Instead, it believes it can see local outbreaks happening and give more powers to local councils, and ministers, to act on that very, very quickly.

What we are seeing Boris Johnson do is outline a longer term plan to, as he says, “get back to life as normal”, or as normal as possible.

But it is clear from listening to him that it is not going to feel normal for everybody for quite some time.