We meant Wednesday

Sir Keir Starmer thought Boris meant go to work on Monday; I thought it meant go to work on Monday; the people on the rammed London tubes this morning clearly thought he meant Monday; bet you thought the same. No rebuttal last night from No 10. Then this morning, Dominic Raab does the media rounds with the message, we meant Wednesday.

This is the order Boris uttered his shambolic exhortation:

"And the first step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week. We said that you should work from home if you can, and only go to work if you must.

"We now need to stress that anyone who can’t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work.And we want it to be safe for you to get to work. So you should avoid public transport if at all possible – because we must and will maintain social distancing, and capacity will therefore be limited. So work from home if you can, but you should go to work if you can’t work from home.....

....... And from this Wednesday, we want to encourage people to take more and even unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise."

This is what Boris told MPs last  Wednesday:

“I just want to explain to the House as a courtesy why it's happening on Sunday. This is because, I'm sure you'd be interested to know, that the reason for that is very simple, that we know we have to be sure that the data is going to support our ability to do this. But that data is coming in, continuously over the next few days, we'll want if, we possibly can to get going with some of these measures on Monday.”