He said: “Then I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term and starting, cautiously, to move regions down the tiers.”
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, however, set the timeline a bit further away, saying the lockdown is likely to start ending in March.
Mr Gove said: “What we will be doing is everything that we can to make sure that as many people as possible are vaccinated so that we can begin to progressively lift restrictions.
“I think it is right to say that, as we enter March, we should be able to lift some of these restrictions, but not necessarily all.”
