"Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the penultimate point on his Roadmap to Freedom yesterday. Restrictions on meeting inside, eating and drinking inside bars and restaurants and hugging will be lifted from next Monday.

The success of the vaccination programme means that the UK is now just a single step away from being free of restrictions.

Concerns are still being voiced about foreign travel particularly given the worsening situation in India. Johnson called for common sense to prevail as he spoke of his expectations that people would remember the dark times of last Autumn when it seemed that the spread of the Pandemic was close to being out of control.

Local elections held last week in the UK were the first significant test of the Government’s actions over both Brexit and the Pandemic. Apart from the mayoral election in London the Conservative Party achieved just about every goal it set itself.

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