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Plan B restrictions could start to be lifted this month, as Michael Gove said Britain was moving towards a situation where it could ‘live with Covid’.
The measures were imposed last month and include guidance on working from home and legal requirements for masks and Covid passports in certain venues.
Downing Street is examining options to lift them in stages if Omicron cases remain too high to remove them all in one go.
Extending Covid passports, due to expire on January 26, would require another bruising clash with Tory backbenchers, which No 10 wants to avoid.
But some ministers are pushing for the work from home guidance to be removed first, arguing that it causes the most damage to the economy.
Plan B restrictions could start to be lifted this month, as Michael Gove (pictured in parliament on January 10) said Britain was moving towards a situation where it could ‘live with Covid’
Mr Gove, who has consistently argued for the toughest restrictions, yesterday warned that there were ‘difficult weeks ahead’ for the NHS as the virus surges outside London.
But he said there would be ‘better times ahead’ once the current surge in cases has passed.
‘There are other coronaviruses which are endemic and with which we live – viruses tend to develop in a way whereby they become less harmful but
