The Guardian view on summer holidays: mixed messages | Editorial

It is possible, as well as desirable, that some trips could be possible in the coming months. But ministers have created another muddleThe confusion dates back almost a month, to a press conference at which the health secretary, Matt Hancock, revealed that he has booked a summer holiday in Cornwall. In the following weeks other ministers made more cautious statements. But the seed was sown, and this week the contradiction at the heart of the government’s message to the public about summer