Britain's transport minister Grant Shapps has said there was still no exact date for when the United States would open for travellers from the United Kingdom, beyond guidance of early November.

Asked on Sky News if he had a specific date for when the US would allow Britons in, Shapps said: “I don't.”

Shapps said he was in touch with his US counterpart and the US ambassador over the matter and that the US still wanted to proceed but it was a matter of working out the technicalities of how to do it.

“They're still saying to me, early November,” he later told Times Radio.

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