Fraser Nelson

It's been six weeks since the Prime Minister first sat down to give the statement to the British public that began lockdown. Today, as James Forsyth first reported in The Spectator two weeks ago, Boris Johnson announced that the lockdown isn't over yet. From Wednesday onwards, the one form of exercise a day rule will be removed so that, social distancing provided, people will be able to spend time outside even when they are not exercising or shopping. But not much else has changed, and in his statement, Boris Johnson sets out why. The 'R' number simply isn't sufficiently low enough. A new metric for judging the risk to the population with five levels has been devised, and we are somewhere between levels 3 and 4 (with 5 being the risk at its peak).

What is Boris Johnson going to say in his speech on Sunday? Wales's first minister Mark Drakeford gave us a clue this morning when he announced that the Welsh lockdown will continue for at least another three weeks. Meanwhile, No. 10 has been trying to dampen speculation that the PM will announce substantial relaxations to the lockdown. Katy Balls, Fraser Nelson and John Connolly discuss the growing concern among Tory backbenchers over the government's handling of the exit strategy.

The Prime Minister has kicked off his return to Downing Street with a speech to the nation, setting out the next steps in the battle against coronavirus.

With James Turner, CEO of the Sutton Trust, and Fraser Nelson.Presented by Katy Balls.

This week, the Spectator commemorates its 10,000th edition. On the podcast, Cindy Yu speaks to David Butterfield and Fraser Nelson about the magazine's two centuries of history, finding out about how the publication started, discussing whether it is still the same now as it was originally intended, and hearing about what David calls its 'industrial drink culture'. Find out more about the history of the magazine with David's new book, 10,000 Not Out. Also on the podcast, Cindy speaks to James Forsyth and former Director of Comms at No 10, Craig Oliver. As James writes in the issue this week, when Boris Johnson comes back to work, he returns to a split Cabinet and a difficult decision - how and when to ease the lockdown?

The NHS has been transformed to deal with the coronavirus threat, and it's thus far holding up, despite fears over capacity. But what has been the effect on the rest of the health service, and its usual patients? Fraser Nelson speaks to Alastair McLellan, Editor of the Health Service Journal.

Behind the scenes, the Cabinet is split on whether or not to lift the lockdown. The hawks such as Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Alok Sharma, are concerned about the economic and human costs of a sustained lockdown; the doves, such as Matt Hancock, worry that lifting the lockdown too soon risks a second wave. Given Boris's liberal instincts, the hawks hope that he will come down on their side. But will the Prime Minister disappoint?

On the Andrew Marr Show today, Sir Jeremy Farrar, a senior scientific advisor on the government's scientific advisory group Sage, warned that the UK is on track to become one of the worst hit countries in Europe by coronavirus. So has the British government been too slow in its response?

The government is trying to find out the human cost of the coronavirus lockdown, with one model seen by ministers estimating 150,000 'avoidable deaths'. So could the cure to the pandemic be worse than the disease itself?

One of the biggest decisions in the government's approach to tackling coronavirus is when and how to lift the lockdown. But this is also one of the most divisive issues within Cabinet. With the Prime Minister not yet out of hospital, this will be one of the things that Dominic Raab can't decide in his stead.

With Boris Johnson currently hospitalised with no sign of release any time soon, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is the 'designated survivor'. But at today's press conference, he admitted he hadn't spoken to Boris Johnson since Saturday. So who is running the government?

Tonight, the Prime Minister is admitted to hospital for tests; the Queen gives a statement to the nation; and Catherine Calderwood steps down as Scotland's Chief Medical Officer after having been found to flout her own social distancing rules.