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THE new national lockdown could last MONTHS rather than the four weeks the PM insists it will be, it has been revealed.
This afternoon Boris Johnson will today insist the lockdown in England will end on December 2 – despite Michael Gove yesterday insisting it would only end if the country’s infection measuring R-rate falls below one.
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