Boris Johnson government is “increasingly confident” that more countries can soon added to the amber and green travel lists, a senior minister has said.
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab said he hoped more travel links could soon be opened up for British holidaymakers, as other countries speed up their vaccine roll-out.
“We’ve done the job we had to do domestically and as we see other countries catch up if you like, I think we are increasingly confident that more countries will go either on amber or on to green,” Mr Raab told Sky News on Thursday.
The cabinet minister said holidaymakers would have to wait until next week to see if any changes were made to the travel light system, but he added: “The momentum forward is positive”.
Mr Raab also did not rule out the possibility of popular destination Spain moving to a different at the government’s next review point a week on Thursday.