London commuters welcome office return but some say move is No 10 diversion

Workers' views on opening up vary from it's time to learn to live with virus' to old ways are gone'

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Commuters have welcomed their freedom to return to the office, despite many believing the government's motives had more to do with political expediency than science.

We're opening back up today for a mixture of reasons, the biggest of which is that the government needs a distraction because of all the things that have been going on in Downing Street," said Marianne Phillips, an accountant on her way to the office for the first time since the pandemic began, at Euston station on Wednesday morning.