Lockdown

Return to home office is ‘frustrating’, VSA Capital CEO says

The government said that people should work from where if they can from 13 December as Covid-19 cases surge

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The UK's autumn and winter plan would allow workers to continue going into work and scrap the vaccine passport programme

What’s ahead for the City this winter: Working from home, vaccine passports and masks

Masks, vaccine passports and remote working on the table for winter if cases spike

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The rate of people going out to eat is getting firmly back on track after three national lockdowns

Four indicators tracking the UK’s return to work this summer

The UK is getting back to the office, having dinner in restaurants and jetting off abroad after Covid

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Only 1% of the 189 respondents in the poll see life going “completely back to normal” by the end of 2021

City bankers brace for lockdowns to return by year-end

Just over 60% of UK-based market professionals in a poll from Deutsche Bank's research unit see some form of “daily life [or] economic restrictions to still be in place” by December

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to the parliament liaison committee

Boris Johnson refuses to say if he sacked Matt Hancock again

Prime minister ignores question on health secretary's departure three times

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Commuters walk across London Bridge towards the City of London square mile financial district in London

Government has ‘no intention’ of making the return to the office compulsory

Minister Kit Malthouse said a consultation on flexible working will take place later this year

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City working will look different, but is London ready for a return?

London, Paris and Frankfurt: Five charts tracking the return to work

Although London continues to lag behind European counterparts on a return to the office, the reasons for home working are the same in Paris and Frankfurt

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson

UK ramps up second vaccine doses to combat Indian Covid variant

Prime minister says the roadmap out of lockdown remains on track despite new cases

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Goldman Sachs have said that the return to the office in the UK is 'firmly in progress’

Goldman Sachs: Buy the return-to-office boom

Bank says workplace traffic is already back at summer 2020 levels

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Customers can return to eating indoors from 17 May, like patrons at this Colombian food restaurant inside the Seven Sisters indoors market in north London

UK to ease restrictions from 17 May: Here’s what you can and can’t do

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the country can now look forward to unlocking

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Malta could be a potential green-list holiday destination

Here’s where the UK’s green-list holiday destinations could be this summer

These are the countries that could be on the UK’s list of approved countries from 17 May

Business conferences could return without social distancing this summer

Early data from a government pilot scheme showed no spike in Covid infections from events

An NHS app would be used for travellers to be able to show their vaccine status and evidence of recent negative Covid-19 tests

UK will use Covid passports for international travel, Grant Shapps confirms

NHS app will let travellers show vaccination status

A government timeline for the return to work has yet to be established. Instead, companies are adopting flexible working arrangements to keep staff safe while reopening physical office spaces

Remote working to continue as fifth of finance hiring shifts to at-home jobs

Financial services was fourth in the UK for remote-first hiring

Workers grabbing a lunchtime coffee near Bank Station

Lockdown lifts — the new City normal in pictures

Pints in the City as pandemic restrictions ease

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Customers queue outside a Primark clothing store ahead of its reopening on Oxford Street in London on Monday, 12 April

Second stage of lockdown lifting today: What can you do now? Where can you go?

There's been an 88% increase in requests for restaurant bookings as of 12 April

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Those arriving in the UK from countries in the amber category will have to quarantine for 10 days at home after travel

Traffic light travel: How the UK’s new system for holidays will work

Countries will be sorted into green, amber and red categories based on a number of Covid-related factors

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Beachgoers play volleyball on Barceloneta beach in Barcelona, Spain. Travellers wishing to go abroad for the summer may soon be able to with the UK's new "green light" system which is set to help open up travel corridors after pandemic restrictions that prevented holiday bookings

Britons can ‘start to think about’ booking foreign holidays

New traffic light list of countries for travel to be released in 'two or three weeks'

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Coronavirus vaccination at a mosque in southwest London

Sharpest Covid infection drop in London region shows vaccine rollout ‘is working’

Matt Hancock: The vaccine is 'breaking the link' between deaths and coronavirus

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