The hospitality sector believes staying closed for the next eight weeks would be worth it if spring holidays could be saved

Tourism chiefs have added their voices to calls for a national lockdown in a bid to help save Easter holiday bookings.

Boris Johnson is expected to announce tighter restrictions for England in a television address at 8pm on Monday. Johnson’s refusal to give specific details of the new measures in an interview on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday prompted Labour leader Keir Starmer to call for an immediate lockdown to help tackle the “out of control” virus. “No more dither, no more delay,” Starmer tweeted.

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