There will be no weekly update and Q&A session on Friday 11 June.

Once again we are hugely disappointed that the government's first review of its traffic-light system not only sees no new countries added to its green list but also contains no indication of when and how countries might be moved to green in future. This is in contrast to the announcement from the Irish government today that arrivals from the EU and elsewhere with a vaccine certificate or a negative Covid-19 test will be welcome there from 19 July without quarantine and other restrictions.

One of our next campaigning actions is to orchestrate a 'post-bag' mailout to UK MPs from all political parties so that the issues we face are top of mind when we contact MPs for the next phase of the campaign.

The voice of the membership was at the forefront of our first-ever hybrid members' conference.

Congratulations to our newly elected trustees Jago Brown, Leon Zhang, Shoko Doherty, Stephan Roussounis, and Tim Cooke.