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Keeping the handbrake on is a polite way of describing Boris's raft of announcements yesterday about how and when the lockdown is going to be eased. On Twitter, I described it as placing the country on "double secret probation", so elaborate are the rules about when we're allowed out of our domestic prisons. Others have been more forthright. One reader described the Prime Minister's speech as a "nothingburger squared", while Kathy Gyngell at Conservative Woman has a new name for our glorious leader: Bottler Boris. The weird thing is, lots of people think he went too far. That was particularly true of left-wing politicians. Jeremy Corbyn, for instance, tweeted: "There should be no return to work until it is safe to do so. If work cannot be done safely, it should not proceed. People must come before private profit." The idea, obviously, is to get it on record that they think Boris is making a dreadful mistake so if the death toll starts to rise they can pin that on him. Sturgeon is playing the same game. Happily, that didn't stop people getting on the tube to return to work this morning. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has responded by saying wearing masks on public transport should be compulsory. One thing that stood out in Boris's speech was how often he ...