LONDON (UK) – Policing minister Kit Malthouse has given the nod to local bike trips under lockdown restrictions after Prime Minister Boris Johnson received flak for riding on a bicycle to the Olympic Park in east London from Downing Street, clocking seven miles.
Asked if longer cycling trips were within the rules, Malthouse told Sky News: “Yes. And what we’re asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local, now local is obviously open to interpretation but people broadly know what local means.”
“If you’re (…) genuinely taking exercise and not going out for other purpose social purposes, then that seems perfectly reasonable.”
The Evening Standard newspaper reported Johnson was spotted in Olympic Park on Sunday.