Speaking on The Telegraph’s Chopper’s Politics podcast, Grant Shapps also urged families to book overseas holidays, as long as they purchased insurance, and said he believed vaccine passports would become the "norm for travel".
Shapps said he hoped the current policy of no pre-departure testing would not change.
He told the podcast: “Do you want to kill off the travel sector again without knowing that you need to? Or do you want to take the right level of calibrated response?
"This government thinks we should take a calibrated response, which doesn’t take us right back to the beginning of this [pandemic]…
