Addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday (27 January), Johnson said progress towards normality would depend on the government and NHS meeting its 15 February target to vaccinate everyone in the four groups must vulnerable to Covid.
Johnson said the government’s hope was to review the country’s situation then, with a view to setting out the results of that review and a plan to "take the country out of lockdown" on 22 February.
"We remain in a perilous position," said the prime minister. "But the overall picture should be clearer by mid-February."
