direct to your inboxMichael Gove is to hold urgent talks the leaders of the devolved administrations this afternoon.
The Cabinet Office Minister will lead a conversation over the Christmas rules which will see coronavirus restrictions relaxed for five days from next week.
There have been call for the 'Christmas bubble' guidance to be scrapped with warnings that the decision to relax measures over festive period is a 'major error that will cost many lives'.
However, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford described the four nations approach to the festive period as a "hard-won agreement" and said he will "not lightly put it aside".The planned five-day "Christmas window" would allow three households to mingle indoors between December 23 and.
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