NO MORE MASKS: UK PM Boris Johnson to announce end of lockdown rules today

No more masks! 😷❌ 

Pubs back to normal! 🍻✅ 

No more QR codes! 📱🙌 

Holidays OK! 🏖✈️ 

Freedom is in YOUR hands: As Boris Johnson prepares to unveil July 19 blueprint for ending lockdown curbs, he declares it's time to live with Covid as we do flu... and let Britons use their own judgment.

Boris Johnson is to declare an end to most lockdown restrictions today, with social distancing rules, the work from home order, and mask mandates to be ditched from July 19 as he will argue that we must learn to live with coronavirus as we do with the flu. 

The Prime Minister will use a press conference this afternoon to confirm a bonfire of virus rules and restrictions from the so-called Freedom Day later this month, in which he will say that individuals will again be able to judge the risks of coronavirus for themselves. 

The one-metre plus decree and the work from home order will be dropped, with mask wearing no longer mandatory - while pubs and other venues will not have to collect customer details and will again be able to serve drinks at the bar in a boon for the economy. 

Speaking before his announcement, the Prime Minister said people would have to 'exercise judgment' to protect themselves from coronavirus, in a sign the Government will shift from legally enforced restrictions to affording people personal choice.