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Sophie Griffiths: 'Travel needs more than govt sentiment'

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Sophie Griffiths
4 May 2020

“We’ve got to get tourism going again,” Boris Johnson declared last week.

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It was a statement full of his usual bluster, but it was heartening nevertheless to hear the PM sympathising with a sector that has been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, as demonstrated by last week’s potential job cuts from British Airways and Ryanair.

There was more positive news as Johnson announced the UK was finally past the peak of the disease. How long it will take for business to resume, though, is another question.