TfL has banned junk food advertising (Nick Ansell/PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)The rules on wearing face coverings on Transport for London services will be lifted from tomorrow following the Prime Minister’s announcement on the ending of Covid restrictions. However, TfL will continue to “strongly recommend” that mask-wearing continues, in line with advice to passengers using the national rail network.
Our hope is that Londoners continue to act responsibly, courteously and proportionately to the risk. That means testing and staying at home if displaying Covid symptoms and remembering there are vulnerable people who have the same right as everyone else to use the Tube or take the bus.
Masks are a piece of cloth or polypropylene fibre, not ammunition in a culture war. But the lifting of their requirement on the TfL network is a symbolic moment for London, as we learn to live with the virus and look to the future.
PM’s damaging legacy
In any other week, the revelation that the Prime Minister had been effectively interviewed under police caution would be dominating the headlines and airwaves alike. Boris Johnson is the first-ever British leader to face such questioning, relating to his alleged appearances at a series of lockdown-busting Downing Street parties.
Regardless of the conclusions of the Metropolitan Police investigation or the Sue Gray inquiry, this latest development is unedifying and damaging to the office of Prime Minister. That is a legacy no leader should want to leave behind.
