Government seem to want to encourage the public to become keener to exit the lockdown than public currently are.

Compare this description of today& #39;s Opinium poll, in news report on govt thinking, to the actual Opinium poll findings.

Tel report
#Echobox=1587934959">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/26/boris-johnson-could-ease-lockdown-may-7-deadline/?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter #Echobox=1587934959">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/...

Tel says "more than half of people wanting restaurants, offices, shopping centres and schools to reopen *as soon as* new infections decrease"

Reopen "once cases go down" @OpiniumResearch
Restaurants: 14%
Offices: 24%
Shopping centres: 18%
Schools: 33%

https://www.opinium.co.uk/public-opinion-on-coronavirus-21st-april/">https://www.opinium.co.uk/public-op...

The public will (in principle) support a staggered exit from the lockdown, once it is safe to have a staggered exit. But "increasingly keen" is over-spinning quite a lot - given that three times as many people are worried about easing too fast as moving too slowly. (DeltaPoll)

https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1254358578120531970">https://twitter.com/sundersay...

Accurate IF said: the public is OPEN TO [NOT/increasingly supportive] a staggered exit from lockdown. More than half of people want restaurants, offices, shopping centres and schools to reopen [NOT/as soon as new infections decrease] "once cases drop AND monitoring is in place"

Perhaps not a million miles away from what is reported.

But this is factually mis-reporting the poll.

Especially as poll respondents were given a "when cases drop" option - so its clear a majority *didn& #39;t* back it "as soon as" cases drop, without further conditions.

Accurate claim about attitudes: "Most of the public are CAUTIOUS about easing the lockdown too quickly, though most do favour a staggered exit once it is safe to do so"

Inaccurate claim: "Most of the public are INCREASINGLY KEEN to see the lockdown eased AS SOON AS cases drop"

Next debate NOT really how mostly framed: "Can govt respond to growing [public] itch/pressure to ease/end lockdown?"

Is real story cross-pressures?

Govt preference + public finances + business
vs
CAUTIOUS public

But media bias to itchiness (need for news) maybe inevitable