WATCH: David Lammy slams Alok Sharma quarantine-free travel from 30 countries
"It’s one rule for them and another rule for us, whether it’s Dominic Cummings, whether it’s Matt Hancock, whether it’s Alok Sharma."
"It’s one rule for them and another rule for us, whether it’s Dominic Cummings, whether it’s Matt Hancock, whether it’s Alok Sharma."
Two Labour MPs accused ministers of “playing politics” with the travel alert system, and said it was only opening up the UK to nations “it stands to benefit from economically”.
Sunak is said to be calling for Britain to take advantage of its successful vaccination programme by opening up further.
One Brit who lives in Italy said she did not tell her son that children who live in the UK do not have to go through the same travel testing and isolation because “he would find it very unfair”.
The recently announced travel rules are inconsistent, illogical, unfair and they scream discrimination. Why are we allowing the Tory government to do this to people?
“Surely, the Pfizer vaccine we have in the UK is the same as British people in Romania or Romanians getting their vaccine in Romania have."
An update on whether fully jabbed Brits could go on holiday to amber list countries is expected soon.
“We now have over 50 per cent of the adult population vaccinated, yet we’re more restricted on travel than we were last year," Theresa May said.
"It will facilitate the free movement of all Europeans, starting this summer. And it shows once again that the EU delivers."
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