Personally, I think they've been forced to bring their 'easing' plan forward a couple of weeks due to the Cummings fiasco (and similar).
Whether Cummings did right or wrong is of little consequence, the fact is a lot of people were quite . . angry . . at what occurred (helped along by the media), and were probably close to stepping over the 'lock down' line in protest.
Once
that rock ever started rolling downhill you'd have little chance of stopping it
