A day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson' s roadmap announcement, we went into Blackpool to see how everyone was feeling. This is what we found:
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“I’m hopeful but obviously nothing can be guaranteed and it all depends on the way we continue to be prudent and continue to follow the guidance in each stage,” he told reporters during a visit to Sedgehill Academy, in Lewisham, south-east London.
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“Genuinely, because of the immense possibilities of the rollout, because science has given us this way of creating a shield around our population, we can really look at that June 21 date with some optimism.
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“I’m very optimistic that we’ll be able to get there.”
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Mr Johnson acknowledged that “fervent libertarians” will reject the premise of vaccine passports or “Covid status certificates”, as he calls them, but said they need to be investigated.
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He argued “we can’t be discriminatory against people” who cannot have a jab for medical reasons, while acknowledging some may also “generally refuse to have one”, albeit on mistaken grounds.
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As the vaccine programme continues to progress, the Prime Minister said Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, will lead a review to get “the best scientific, moral, philosophical, ethical viewpoints on it and work out a way forward”.