Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeEngland's lockdown laws will be axed as planned in seven days but Boris Johnson will tighten advice on Covid passports, masks, vulnerable people and working from home in a massive U-turn. He told the Commons: “We believe this wall means we can withstand a summer wave. The most significant change is in high-risk crowded venues - which will now suddenly be “encouraged” to use Covid passports at just a few days’ notice. More than 2million clinically extremely vulnerable people will be advised to consider avoiding crowded places and unvaccinated people all summer, it's understood. Minsters who claimed they would remove their face masks are also set to keep them on in another U-turn.

Source: Daily Mirror July 12, 2021 14:51 UTC