Boris Johnson returns to work after brush with death

Prime minister ‘raring to go’ despite splits in cabinet and imminent decision over how and when to lift lockdown

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Boris Johnson returns to work today facing one of the hardest decisions of his premiership, deciding when and how to begin lifting the coronavirus lockdown that has brought the British economy to its knees.

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