Britain wants to allow people to have holidays abroad again but the government is wary of risks, a minister said on Thursday ahead of an announcement on whether a narrow list of quarantine free travel destinations would be expanded.
Anger is growing at Britain’s onerous restrictions on foreign travel: pilots, cabin crew, travel agents and other workers from the travel industry held protests on Wednesday, begging the government to open up more routes.
“Personally I want us to get back to a position where we can support those who want to travel to do so,” Environmental Secretary George Eustice told Sky News.
“But it is difficult, we are being cautious,” he added, saying that there was a risk of new variants emerging in other countries which are more resistant to vaccination.
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