They believe workers might have to be re-skilled.
Speaking live on Sky News, Gillian Keegan, the Apprenticeships & Skills Minister and MP for Chichester, said that ‘it is hard to see how nightclubs will open until we have some kind of long-term way to deal with Coronavirus. That is for sure true’.
Speaking to the network, she continued: ‘it’s difficult to see how you can have a nightclub operating with Coronavirus. In any sort of enjoyable way […] It’s difficult to see how you could go to a nightclub within the rule of six…how can you socially distance and have a good time in a nightclub? I think it is difficult to see how you could keep the virus under control, indoors in those kinds of situations which is why they haven’t been opened yet’.
Her public appearance on Sky comes as a part of a government initiative to re-skill workers in industries that have been severely damaged by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The government minister also said that ‘it is hard to see how nightclubs will open’ in the near future’. The night time industry is worth £66 billion a year in the UK alone, but the government has barely included clubs and venues in its economic plans, suggesting that workers that aren’t able to operate during the pandemic must turn their attention elsewhere.
‘Today we are introducing a new focus on adults which is just being able to offer people the chance to reskill, upskill, take different routes in life because they may need to. It is clear that some of those jobs may take a long time to come back because they don’t fit with the virus’, she concluded.
