Desperate families booking trips for after the lockdown restrictions are eased is entirely understandable given the huge sacrifices made over the past year.
Boris Johnson will never be forgiven should the hopes of a nation be dashed again.
Staycations after April 12 and potentially foreign flights from May 17 are prizes that will keep people going until we’re allowed to resume more normal lives.
It would be cruel if Government-enforced cancellations followed yet again.
We all have our parts to play by following the rules.
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But the Prime Minister has triggered these holiday hopes so, should the vaccination programme falter or he abandons Downing Street’s roadmap, there will be no hiding place.
Vaccine passports are no simple solution but they do deserve careful consideration, particularly to fly abroad without long quarantine periods on returning to the UK.
Expensive trip
Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick has repaid expenses after an investigation discovered he claimed for both a rail fare and car mileage on the same journey.
If ordinary workers somehow made the same mistake and asked to be paid twice for one return trip they might not be as lucky as the wealthy Housing Secretary.
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Jenrick needs to be considerably more careful with public funds.
He once helped a Tory donor avoid millions of pounds of tax while his Department’s £3.6billion “towns fund” benefited mostly his own party’s MPs.
Every penny of taxpayers’ money must be spent wisely and Jenrick’s double expenses claims will fuel public contempt.
Thanks, Nobby
He had the heart of a lion and now the brain of the late England 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles might save the lives of other Alzheimer’s victims.
It will assist scientists researching brain injuries as evidence grows that dementia in ex-players is linked to heading balls. Respect.
