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Shapps: 'I'm no longer advising people against booking holidays'

Government
James Chapple
9 April 2021

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has told BBC Breakfast he is no longer advising people against booking their summer holidays, and says certainty on the outlook for the summer is just weeks away.

Shapps said he anticipates the overhaul will come in time for the October half-term (Credit: BBC Breakfast)

Shapps said a list of "green" destinations under the government’s new traffic light system for international travel would be published in the next two to three weeks, and would allow people to start making "their own decisions" on travel.


His comments on Friday morning (9 April) came after the government published the headline findings of the government’s Global Travel Taskforce review of how international travel can restart safely over the coming months, with a 17 May resumption still a possibility.