UK Covid live: Boris Johnson sets out roadmap to end England’s lockdown

Prime minister tells MPs new plan for schools, social contact, retail and hospitality

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3.40pm GMT

Johnson says these measures are for England. But he says the devolved administrations have similar plans.

He says the vaccines seem to be effective against the dominant strains of the virus.

3.37pm GMT

Boris Johnson starts by saying his roadmap will guide the government “cautiously but irreversibly” to lifting the lockdown.

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