now you should not be booking a holiday
this summer
in the uk or abroad that's what the
transport secretary said today
going on holiday is currently illegal
tonight the prime minister said it was
too
soon to say whether holidays would be
allowed by the summer
but he hoped to give more clarity later
this month our political editor laura
kunsberg reports
the excitement of a plane ride when your
feet don't touch the floor
hello hi guys we're the fellows family
harry and chester eight and six might be
waiting a long time before splashing
into the pool in france at the campsite
after months of homeschooling and home
working the furthest the fellows family
are going at the moment
is the loft consisting the government
has given us a very mixed message
it's a bit of a blow i'm sure like
millions of other families equally we'd
be happy to go to
birmingham manchester anywhere to
get out of the house this morning the
man who's in charge of how we get around
said we shouldn't book a holiday at home
or away please don't go ahead and book
holidays for something which
at this stage is illegal to actually go
and do whether it's here
or abroad and then you know further down
the
line i simply don't know the answer to
the question of
you know where we'll be up to uh this
summer but some of his colleagues
have put holiday plans in their diary i
i'm going to cornwall
uh and i i've said before i think we're
going to have a great british summer
should you plan for that going on
holiday abroad is banned right now and
under lockdown you're only allowed away
from home for limited reasons
you can now book for months to come
whether anyone wants a repeat of crowded
beaches in britain last summer is a
different question
the hope at least is clear that by the
summer with the spread of the vaccine
and the squeeze on the disease
the tourist spots could in theory be
buzzing once again
and there is rising frustration among
some of the government's
own mps that ministers somehow seem to
keep postponing the future
but inside government there's a real
reluctance
ministers just don't want to make
promises they may later
have to break and despite progress the
effects of the pandemic
won't disappear fast travel's already
been hammered by recession and
restrictions at the border
the last thing the industry wants to
hear is ministers urging us not to book
should members of the public be booking
summer holidays or not
whether at home or abroad because the
transport secretary this morning warned
people against booking
anything at all as everybody knows it's
currently illegal to
go on holiday that's the state of play
at the moment we're looking at the data
every day
i'm afraid it is just uh too early for
people to
be certain about what we'll be able to
do
this summer so he didn't repeat his
minister's warning
what the government could do for
families is to stop putting out mixed
messages
so the prime minister one week was
saying he's optimistic about holidays
then got the transport secretary saying
don't book a holiday that isn't helping
businesses
it's not helping families of course it's
difficult nobody quite knows where we're
going to be by the summer
that's the fellows family signing off
for the fellows family and millions of
us
it's just not clear when a holiday will
be a reason to say goodbye
laura coonsburg bbc news westminster bye
boys