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Video: Health secretary pours cold water on summer holiday season

Government
James Chapple
12 May 2020

Health secretary Matt Hancock has played down the prospect of a resumption of international travel in time for the ummer holiday season.

‘This roadmap allows us to strike a balance to go forward cautiously but not to go back,’ the PM has said

Hancock told ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday (12 May) it was unlikely that "big, lavish, international holidays" would be possible this summer.


"Do we now all have to come to the conclusion that summer is essentially cancelled, holidays cancelled, and that it will be unlike any summer we’ve had since probably the Second World War?" presenter Phillip Schofield asked Hancock, to which he replied: "I think that’s likely to to be the case."

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