UK lockdown: are people going out more?

New data suggests increasing number of Brits are not staying at home

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With pressure mounting on Boris Johnson to give clarity on the length of the UK’s lockdown, images showing busy roads have been used to suggest that Brits are growing restless.

The Daily Mail reports that roads were this morning “packed with traffic” and that “phone data showed that millions more people are taking to the roads”, a development that the paper says shows people are returning to their normal habits.

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