Yvette Cooper MP, Shadow Home Secretary, responding to leaked SAGE papers

Yvette Cooper MP, Shadow Home Secretary, responding to leaked SAGE papers that say pre-departure Covid testing for travellers returning to the UK would be valuable, said:

“It is totally unacceptable that Ministers are failing to take action at the border when even their own advisors are telling them to introduce pre-departure tests.

“It cannot be right that people can travel to an airport, board a busy flight, queue at busy departure gates, and travel on trains and buses in the UK, all without having taken a test.

“The government must not repeat the mistakes it made earlier in the pandemic by being too slow to take action to prevent further cases of the Omicron variant entering the UK.”