Shapps told BBC Breakfast on Wednesday (10 February) a resumption of travel would be firstly dependent on the UK’s vaccination effort continuing apace and filtering down to lower age groups.
He reiterated prime minister Boris Johnson would on 22 February set out a roadmap out of the current Covid lockdown, which he said would be heavily conditional.
"It will be, ‘if this happens and cases are coming down and if we see deaths reducing further and so on and so forth and the vaccination programme is running as planned’, then we’ll set out a series of dates to start the unlock from this lockdown," said Shapps.
