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Here is the Scottish government's summary of the latest plans for easing lockdown restrictions in Scotland. And here is a graphic summarising what it says.

Scotland's indicative route out of lockdown. If we all stick with it and get the virus more under control as the vaccines do their work, there is hope for a much better summer on the horizon pic.twitter.com/gTKHtJTNn5

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Boris Johnson was elected Conservative leader because of his views on Brexit, and he won a big election victory on this issue, and so it is tempting to assume that, although his MPs might query his decisions on matters like lockdown policy, on foreign policy he ought to have them solidly behind him.

But he doesn't particularly. What his statement to the Commons showed is that backbench support for the integrated review was rather wobbly, with critics divided into three camps.

That was the moment when Churchill actually read out to the world the dangers of the Soviet Union, saying that an iron curtain had been created across Europe.

And I was hoping we'd get the same from this prime minister, to say that China is a geopolitical and geo-strategic, long-term threat. We didn't get that today.

Ultimately I believe we need to stand up to China.

If Donald Trump achieved anything, it was to encourage us all to recalibrate our views on a country that is using its economic might to pursue its own agenda.

Does not that unfortunately demonstrate that the grasping naivety of the Cameron-Osborne years still lingers on in some departments of state?