LIKE everybody else, I am looking forward to Boris Johnson’s ‘Roadmap’ address to the nation on Monday.

I rarely look forward to listening to a man who often seems unable to string a sentence together coherently, rarely answers questions, and obviously doesn’t own a hairbrush. But this is different.

Johnson said earlier this week that his approach would be ‘cautious but irreversible’. That is obviously total tosh.

How can any course of action be irreversible in the pandemic? What if the vaccine doesn’t work? What if the virus mutates into different strains? What if there are more spikes?

If you put a whole load of dates for things to happen, and then the situation changes, then it will not be ‘irreversible’. For goodness' sake, he’s had to reverse many decisions with a series of u-turns already.

I am desperate for live entertainment to come back as soon as possible, not least because it is my main source of income, but also because I fear for theatres and venues closing permanently.

But not at the cost of more lockdowns, please. Do not give in to the MPs on the right who are demanding a quicker ‘back-to-normal’, get everything open, restart the economy, etc.

Please learn from previous mistakes, and get it right this time.