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At last the sense of dithering and drift over the Government's Covid policy seems to be lifting. And a good thing too.
The foot-dragging over getting rid of restrictive measures was doing harm to the Government, magnifying the effect of the Matt Hancock episode into a general feeling of 'one rule for them, and one rule for the rest of us'.
This discontent may well have led to the narrow Labour survival in the Batley and Spen by-election, so slowing (but, we hope, not halting) an encouraging change for the better in British politics.
The Prime Minister has tired of the hesitation and has seen the absurdity of many of the measures, introduced with the best of intentions, which are actually making life miserable without doing any real good.
Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel at Chequers
Many had begun to wonder what the point was of all those vaccinations if they made no obvious difference to our lives at home and work, or our ability to travel abroad on holiday. Now, it seems, they are going to start making a big difference.
This is no bad thing. The British people, as The Mail on Sunday has often pointed out, have been extraordinarily patient with all kinds of difficult, uncomfortable and sometimes distressing restrictions on their lives, often when it was hard to see what good they were actually doing.
But even their patience must eventually run out.
As the postponed liberation day of July 19 approaches, plans are afoot to open up travel to and
