The health secretary, Matt Hancock, appears to have rowed back on some of his previous optimism over summer holidays, saying it is too early for certainty but the government is doing everything it can to allow Britons to a break away from home.
Amid confusion over the government’s messaging about whether or not people should be booking summer holidays for this year, Hancock urged people to be “patient” about the prospect of getting away because of Covid uncertainty.
But the health secretary said on Tuesday he had booked a summer break in Cornwall.
“I know that people are yearning for certainty over whether they can have a summer holiday, but pandemics are difficult times and there is a lot of uncertainty, so I am afraid that people will have to be patient before we can get that certainty,” he told BBC Breakfast. “We are doing everything that we possibly can to make sure that people can have a holiday this summer but the vaccine rollout is absolutely essential to that.
“We will set out more in more detail when we can, but at the moment unfortunately there is that uncertainty still.”
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