People living in England will be able to go on holidays abroad from next week, Boris Johnson has announced.

Non-essential international travel will resume from May 17, as part of a series of Covid-19 restrictions lifting on the same date.

Speaking at a Downing Street press briefing today, Mr Johnson confirmed the non-essential travel ban will be scrapped and replaced by a risk-based traffic light system next Monday.

The PM said the data supports the further easing of lockdown rules, meaning England can progress to Step 3 in the government’s ‘road map to freedom’.

He told a No 10 press briefing: ‘Today, we’re taking a step toward that moment when we learn to live responsibly with Covid, when we cease, eventually, to rely on detailed government edicts and make our own decisions based on the best scientific advice about how to protect our families and those around us.’

However, he insisted this ‘doesn’t mean we can suddenly throw caution to the wind’ and urged people to ‘think about the vulnerability of your loved ones’ including those who have only received one Covid jab.

The government previously announced that 12 countries had made the ‘green list’, which passengers can travel to without having to quarantine when they return to the UK.

Portugal, Iceland, Gibraltar, the Faroe Islands, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei all made the category.

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