Commuters have welcomed their freedom to return to the office, despite many believing the government’s motives had more to do with political expediency than science.
“We’re opening back up today for a mixture of reasons, the biggest of which is that the government needs a distraction because of all the things that have been going on in Downing Street,” said Marianne Phillips, an accountant on her way to the office for the first time since the pandemic began, at Euston station on Thursday morning.
