vaccines have long been the promised path to freedom jabs in arms means pints in hands

bums on seats and life returning to normal and it's sort of been heading that way except for foreign

holidays a big fat question mark remains over when we'll be able to travel unrestricted again.

The government is working on a plan to allow more freedom for those who've been fully vaccinated,

though when push comes to shove Boris Johnson would probably really rather you opted for Skegness than Santorini this summer.

Those pesky variants have already scuppered the roadmap once.

The government does not want to go into reverse again.

So are we finally edging back to the possibility of a bit of summer sun on foreign shores?

Welcome to the podcast. I'm Daniel Hewitt. In a moment, we'll be joined by the boss of travel firm Tuwey on what the industry needs to see to get back on its feet.

But first, it's a special calling Peston podcast this week

because Robert Peston, our political editor, for whom this podcast is named, is in Israel, one of

the only countries on the government's green list, which means you don't have to quarantine

on your return to the UK. And life is very different right now in Israel, and Robert can tell us

more. Robert, whereabouts are you

exactly? So I'm very lucky that I'm sitting on a balcony overlooking some beautiful gardens

in Jerusalem, but it's work I'm here for it. It's very hard work. Sounds like it.

Before we get on, why are you there? Tell us why you're over there in Jerusalem?

Well, I mean, largely because I wanted a bit of a, like many of us,

I wanted a bit of a change of scene.

And I decided I would come over and try and do two things.

One, try and get a sense of whether this remarkable new government, I mean, remarkable

in the sense that, A, it's led to the departure of the man who essentially become the

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