Rishi Sunak has indicated that he wants to cut the two-metre social distancing rule to help to save jobs and get children back to school.
The chancellor highlighted a warning from the hospitality industry yesterday that only a quarter of pubs would be able to reopen next month if the rule remained at two metres. He said that if it were reduced to one metre, three quarters of them could open.
He told the backbench 1922 Committee of Tory MPs that 24 countries had introduced the flexibility to reduce the two-metre rule, while Sweden and Denmark had lowered it recently.
Mr Sunak also suggested that the change could have a significant impact on schools.
He urged Tory MPs to encourage people to go out and
