BBC has changed the lead story tonight to say the PM hopes not to have a new lockdown.
Earlier today all of the news channels were saying “PM refuses to rule out another lockdown”. Quite a normal comment, you hear comments like that all the time. But what does it actually mean? It is an odd way to say something.
It is a bit like saying “Man refuses to give the date when he stopped beating his wife”.
What it is saying is that the PM cannot see the future, and so cannot tell you what will happen.
But there is a sub-text. It is saying “We think a lockdown might be needed but we can’t get the PM to agree with our speculation”.
If a newspaper article uses odd language think about it carefully.