Thread by @AdamWagner1

🚨 The guidance for the New England lockdown has been published gov.uk/guidance/natio…

Support bubbles, childcare bubbles, exercise, meeting with one of the person not from your household for exercise still in place from Tier 4

This has all been done with such crashing urgency that they haven’t even been able to transpose the PDF version of the guidance into the website yet, it is here:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Looks pretty much the same as Tier 4:
- Can't leave home without a reasonable excuse
- Can take exercise with household/support+childcare bubble/1 other person (says once per day - don't expect this to be in the regulations but who knows)

- Religious communal worship still permitted subject to guidance
- Weddings, funerals, religious events permitted with attendance limits
- Support/childcare bubbles remains same as far as I can see, including more recent extensions such as for households with children under 1

The big change is closure of schools, colleges and universities - this I imagine will be guidance only as it has been throughout the pandemic, unlikely to be reflected in law

As an aside, I am all for protection of religious rights through permitting indoors communal worship but it seems a skewing of priorities (perhaps linked to the policy makers' preferences) that outdoor protest remains effectively banned but you can have 100 people in a synagogue

List of reasonable excuses to leave and be outside of home looks similar to Tier 4, if not the same.

Can leave for work if "unreasonable" to work from home

Let's see what the regulations say - due tomorrow I expect

Outdoor sports venues, including tennis courts, golf courses and swimming pools, must close.

Elite sport to continue

Very useful track change version of the guidance vs the Tier 4 guidance courtesy of @charlescholland. Interesting to see differences in emphasis but not so much in substance. After all, Tier 4 is an evolution of the March lockdown docdroid.net/POIBP0P/guidan…

This is an important change, if it is reflected in the regulations - sounds like the "open air recreation" exception for being outside the home may be removed. I called this the sunbathing exception and then the snowman exception.

https://twitter.com/charlescholland/status/1346201942322782210?s=20