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Labour MP warns govt risks overpromising on summer holidays

Government
James Chapple
1 March 2021

The chair of the home affairs select committee, Labour MP Yvette Cooper, has warned the government risks overpromising on the potential for summer holidays to go ahead this year.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday (1 March), Cooper said new Covid variants would pose a significant risk to the UK’s cautious efforts to reopen its economy and society.

Prime minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of the country’s Covid lockdown could see domestic travel resume from mid-April, and international travel from 17 May – subject to an in-depth review by a newly reconvened Global Travel Taskforce.