Covid restrictions could mostly be gone by May, ministers reportedly hope but Jeremy Hunt has urged for caution. Lockdown-sceptic Tories are pushing for the measures to be lifted entirely by June.
Yesterday, Mark Harper, the Chair of the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) group called on ministers to lift all coronavirus restrictions in just three months.
The backbench Tory MP said he thought the Government could "get rid of restrictions completely" by the end of May. And a Whitehall source was reported to have said that ministers also hoped they could ease most coronavirus restrictions in line with that timetable because of the efforts of the vaccination programme.
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