Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has advised that holidays abroad will be banned until “everybody” has been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Travelling for leisure is currently prohibited under the Covid-19 lockdown rules with many hoping the government will relax the measures in time for the summer.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast earlier today, he was asked what needs to change for overseas travel restrictions to be lifted, Mr Shapps replied: “First of all, everybody having their vaccinations.”
He added: “It depends on both the level of vaccination here and, critically, elsewhere.
“We’ve done 13 million-plus vaccinations, which is just more than the whole of the EU put together.
“So we’ll need to wait for other countries to catch up as well in order to be able to do that wider international unlock, because we can only control the situation here.”
Speaking later on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he also said that “people shouldn’t be booking holidays right now – not domestically or internationally”.
