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Boris Johnson announces closure of all UK pubs and restaurants

Boris Johnson announces closure of all UK pubs and restaurants

Cafes, gyms and leisure centres also told to shut from Friday evening because of Covid-19

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Boris Johnson took the extraordinary step of ordering pubs, clubs and restaurants across the UK to close on Friday, and announced an unprecedented wage-support scheme to try to prevent a tsunami of job losses.

Announcing the decision in the fight against the coronavirus, the prime minister said that he realised it went against what he called “the inalienable free-born right of people born in England to go to the pub”.

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