How will the government ease the lockdown restrictions? What choices and trade-offs will ministers need to make in order to get the country moving again? How can it communicate these complicated messages while also retaining public support?

We explore these questions – perhaps the hardest to face any peacetime prime minister – at a live online event with panel of IfG experts:

Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government
Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government
Dr Catherine Haddon, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government
Giles Wilkes, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government

In the chair is Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government.

Read the new IfG report Lifting lockdown: how to approach a coronavirus exit strategy which calls on the government to be straight with the public that there can be no single grand exit plan to release the Coronavirus lockdown. The report also warns that the government’s five tests for starting to lift the lockdown are not a good enough guide to the longer-term exit strategy

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Lifting lockdown: How to approach a Coronavirus exit strategy