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Brits may not be able to go on holiday either within the British Isles or abroad until next year, the Transport Secretary has suggested.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has warned people against booking any trips away as the government "doesn't know where we'll be in terms of the decline in cases, deaths, vaccination".

Mr Shapps told Sky News: "The truth is we just don’t know how the virus will respond both to the vaccines and of course how people will respond and therefore to the social distancing and those kind of measures, and therefore exactly when we will be able to unlock.

“So I’m afraid I can’t give you a definitive, will there or will there not be the opportunity to take holidays this next year either at home or abroad.”

In a blow to many people, he said it was "too soon" for Brits to start booking holidays.

"First of all, I should say, people shouldn't be booking holidays right now – not domestically or internationally," he told Today.

"The Prime Minister will say more about the route to unlocking this country, starting when he speaks about it on February 22.

"But we don't know yet whether that will include information on things like holidays, simply because we don't know where we'll be up to in terms of the decline in cases, deaths, vaccination.

"And not just the vaccination programme here, but the vaccination programme internationally, because people will be going outside of our borders.

"So it's too soon."

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• Coronavirus
• Lockdown
• Holidays

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