Give did not announce a possible extension. He was interviewed by Sophie Ridge on SkyNews and was pushed by Sophie Ridge, who asked the exact same question three times because she didn’t like the first two answers, and on the third time he was asked he said an extension couldn’t be ruled out. I would have thought anyone with any degree of understanding of the Coronavirus situation would understand that it’s impossible to rule anything out until we get an effective vaccine rolled out across the country, or until the virus itself becomes less infective or less deadly.
Within five minutes of Gove being pushed into saying that an extension couldn’t be ruled out, the ticker tacker tape on SkyNews was announcing: Breaking News, Gove says possible extension of lockdown. That’s the level of journalism we have to cope with in this country!
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