Boris Johnson has dropped his strongest hint yet that the two-metre social distancing rule could be dropped in England's schools.
The Prime Minister said "watch this space, watch this space" when asked if he might cut the distance to one metre, like in Northern Ireland.
Speaking on a visit to Bovingdon Primary School in Hertfordshire, the Tory leader added: "And of course on the social distancing measures, as I’ve said, watch this space. "We will be putting in further changes as the science allows.
I think that's what the public also wants to see, they want to see us working with the reality." He made his comments just hours after his own Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, insisted England's schools won't relax social distancing rules until