Labour calls for action on stricter border protections against Covid

“The UK government is recklessly putting at risk progress being made by the vaccine, by refusing to take action to secure our borders against Covid. The fact that they will not even add France to their own limited ‘red list’ shows they continue to fail to understand the consequences of doing too little, too late.

“Rather than the Prime Minister waving a white flag and saying a third wave from Europe will inevitably ‘wash up on our shores’, the UK Government should be urgently introducing a comprehensive hotel quarantine system, to help guard against new variants. Instead of the current system that sees around just 1 per cent of arrivals submit to hotel quarantine.”