There is growing hope among ministers that the rule will be relaxed.
But poll-after-poll suggests the public's mood has soured, and politicians who tell you they don't pay any attention to those surveys may well have two fingers crossed behind their back.
One former cabinet minister described Number 10's approach as"lurch and retreat", with Downing Street having"no strategic sense of where they are going". There is a growing hope though among government ministers that at least part of the way of turning the page would be to relax the two-metre keep your distance rule.Media playback is unsupported on your deviceThe UK government is advising us to stay two metres apart - but what does that look like?
There is still public anxiety about the infection, and that crucial R rate is only just under the danger level of one.And the government's top medics have said publicly that they don't think the two-metre rule should go.
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