In Pictures: Little sign of ‘rush hour’ during morning commute

Boris Johnson says people are returning in ‘huge numbers to the office’.

Published Sep 2, 2020

Last updated Sep 2, 2020

Victoria Station in London during the morning rush hour.

The big return to office work looked more like a trickle than a flood on Wednesday as the Government prepared a PR blitz encouraging employees to head back to their workplace.

With Downing Street fearing huge job losses in town and city centre shops and cafes if workers do not return to pre-lockdown commuter patterns, Boris Johnson claimed people were returning in “huge numbers to the office” – but had little evidence to back up the claim.

Workers return to London — The concourse at Waterloo station (Victoria Jones/PA)

Canary Wharf escalators — Canary Wharf in the City of London (Victoria Jones/PA)

Prime Minister’s Questions — The street is quiet at The Cenotaph in the heart of Whitehall (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives with new permanent under-secretary Philip Barton at the newly named Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office in King Charles Street, Westminster (Alastair Grant/PA)

Return to work — Rush hour on the M40 near Warwick (Jacob King/PA)