Second phase of UK lockdown 'won't be easy', admits Dominic Raab

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The country will have to "adjust to a new normal" as it prepares for life after lockdown, the Foreign Secretary warned today.

Dominic Raab also said the next phase of the UK lockdown "will not be easy" as he spoke at the Downing Street daily press conference.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson is this week set to lay out his plans for potential easing of the restrictions and re-starting the economy.

Mr Johnson's de facto deputy, the Foreign Secretary Mr Raab, said the PM would lay out “the measures and decisions that we will need to take to protect the NHS, to safeguard the economy and to avoid the risk of a second peak." However he said the next phase of the response to coronavirus would have to create a sustainable “new normal” which would