ENVIRONMENT Secretary George Eustice has said there was no need to “get worked up” about other nations in the UK taking different approaches to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
He told the Downing Street press conference: “The devolved administrations do have competence over these issues and some of these measures, and from the beginning some have done slightly different things to England.
“But, generally speaking we’ve taken similar approaches, even though there have been slight differences.
“I don’t think we need to get too worked up about timings of different announcements, Scotland made some comments last week, Wales has today.
“The Prime Minister will be setting out his approach and that road map and how we intend to evolve these restrictions on Sunday.”
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Prime Minster Boris Johnson spoke with the leaders of the devolved nations on Thursday, ahead of an expected announcement on easing parts of the lockdown in England on Sunday.
Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced three “modest adjustments” from Monday to restrictions there.
But Nicola Sturgeon has said the only change in Scotland would be allowing people to leave their house for exercise more than once a day.
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