Boris Johnson returned to Number 10 yesterday after fully recovering from his own coronavirus stint in hospital. However the Prime Minister is facing an agonising dilemma as research suggests that lifting the lockdown for all but elderly people would see more than 100,000 people die while businesses warn about the dire consequences for the economy. BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg revealed that although a plan for the lockdown exit was likely far away, the Governmnet may announce something similar to it by the end of this week.

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She told the Coronavirus Newscast podcast: “In a funny way, it was a statement about holding the line.

“But it was him doing it and he was able to say ‘oh it will change, we will move, we will tell you more, maybe even in the next couple of days’.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if something is announced by the end of this week after Cabinet, which I think is going to be on Thursday when SAGE has more data on what’s happened.

“There’s another SAGE meeting coming in the coming days.”

Ms Kuenssberg continued: “It may well be by the end of this week that we don’t get a plan, but we get the plan that there’s going to be a plan.

“That will come around the day May 7 which is the next renewal of the existing measures.

“Even someone in the cabinet was saying, ‘I kind of thought he might have something new to say, but he didn’t really have anything new to say’.

“The sort of power of the politics was more important, the fact that he is the Prime Minister.”

The BBC journalist added: “Love him or loathe him, he’s the best communicator they’ve got.

“The fact that he was able to come up and say there’s going to have to be a conversation here.

“In terms of the whole conversation, that does change the dynamics.”

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Speaking at Downing Street yesterday, the Prime Minister said: “I ask you to contain your impatience, because I believe we are coming now to the end of the first phase of this conflict and in spite of all the suffering we have so nearly succeeded.

“If you can keep going in the way you have, if you can help protect the NHS, then I have no doubt we will together beat this.

“This is the moment when we have begun, together, to wrestle it to the floor.

“We did not run out of ventilators or ICU beds.

“We did not allow our NHS to collapse, and on the contrary we have so far collectively shielded our NHS so that our incredible doctors and nurses and healthcare staff have been able to shield all of us from an outbreak that would have been far worse and we collectively flattened the peak.”

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