When millions long for summer holidays abroad a way should be found to give them the green light while protecting the country from Covid-19.
Quarantine-free travel from amber list destinations such as Spain and Greece for the fully vaccinated would benefit holidaymakers and save tens of thousands of travel jobs.
Few returning from the amber list are testing positive at the moment, providing evidence the threat may no longer be as grave as feared when the double-jabbed are both safeguarded and less likely to transmit the virus.
If jabs become a passport to go abroad and attend events such as music festivals people would be incentivised to get vaccinated.
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Lifting the final restrictions, with the four parts of the UK travelling at different speeds to the same goal, requires care.
But the return of holidays abroad would cheer people up and show the world Britain is open for business.
How time flies
It is scarcely believable but Wednesday is the fifth anniversary of the momentous vote for the UK to quit the European Union.
The result was close, families were divided and even the UK was a Disunited Kingdom as England and Wales voted to leave while Scotland and Northern Ireland wanted to remain.
Yet rehearsing old arguments, reopening wounds still sore, would achieve little. People are better together than continually feuding.
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We are where we are so, with cool heads, let’s decide how best to resolve problems and build a land where everybody enjoys greater fairness and shared prosperity.
But five years? For some it’ll feel like 50. For many is seems as if it was only yesterday.
Dream of glory
Football is much more than just a game when it excites so much passion.
After England joined Wales in qualifying for the round of 16 in Euro 2020, fans of both nations can dream of glory. Until the next games, anyway.
