That's what the transport Secretary said today.

Going on holiday is currently illegal.

Tonight.

The prime minister said it was too soon to say whether holidays would be allowed by the summer, but he hoped to give more clarity later this month.

Our political editor, Laura Kins back, reports the excitement of a plane right when your feet don't touch the floor.

Hi, guys with the fellows family Harry and Chester, eight and six might be waiting a long time before splashing into the pool in France at the campsite after months of home schooling on home working the furthest the fellows family are going at the moment is the loft consisting The government has given us a very mixed message.

It's a bit of a blow, I'm sure, like millions of other families equally would be happy to go toe Birmingham, Manchester anywhere.

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The man who is in charge of how we get around said we shouldn't book a holiday at home or away.

Please don't go ahead on book holidays for something which at this stage is illegal to actually go and do, whether it's here or abroad on then, you know, further down the line, I simply don't know the answer to the question of you know where we'll be up Thio this summer.

But some of his colleagues have put holiday plans in their diary.

I'm going to call mall Andi, I I've said before.

I think we're gonna have a great British summer.

Should you plan for that?

Going on?

Holiday abroad is banned right now on under lock down, you're only allowed away from home.

For limited reasons, you can the book for months to come.

Whether anyone wants a repeat of crowded beaches in Britain last summer is a different question.

The hope, at least, is clear that by the summer, with the spread of the vaccine on the squeeze on the disease, but tourist spots could in theory be buzzing once again, there is rising frustration among some of the government's own MPs that ministers somehow seemed to keep postponing the future.

But inside government there's a really reluctance.

Ministers just don't want to make promises they may later have to break on.

Despite progress, the effects of the pandemic won't disappear.

Fast travels already being hammered by recession and restrictions of the border.

The last thing the industry wants to hear his ministers are urging us not to book.

Should members of the public be booking summer holidays or not, whether at home or abroad?

Because the transport secretary this morning warned people against booking anything at all because everybody knows it's currently illegal to go on holiday.

That's the state of play at the moment.

We're looking at the data every day.

I'm afraid it is just too early for people.

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Be certain about what will be able to do this summer, so he didn't repeat his ministers warning.

What the government could do for families is to stop putting out mixed messages.

So the Prime Mister one week was saying he's optimistic about holidays, then got the transport secretary saying, Don't book holiday that isn't helping businesses.

It's not helping families.

Of course, it's difficult.

Nobody quite knows where we're gonna be by the summer.

That's the fellows family signing off for the fellows family and millions of us.

It's just not clear when a holiday will be a reason to say goodbye.

Laura Ginsburg, BBC News Westminster.