The Government faces fury tonight over its failure to bring forward tougher border restrictions to help stop dangerous new Covid variants entering the country.
Hotel quarantining of passengers from Covid hotspots is not expected to start for another fortnight. Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds blasted: “Again, it is too little, too late. "Our country’s doors have been left unlocked – first the virus, then its mutations have been imported to our shores.” What is your view?
Have your say in the comments section Currently, people arriving from outside the UK need a negative Covid test and isolate at home for 10 days.