Jim McMahon – 2020 Comments on a New Global Travel Taskforce

The comments made by Jim McMahon, the Shadow Transport Secretary, on 7 October 2020.

The Government is again incompetently slow to react. They’ve had months to set up a taskforce, months to look into airport testing and months to sort out the flaws of their quarantine proposals. Tory Ministers are in a mess and need to get their act together.

It will take a long time to recover from the impact of the virus. The Government must come up with a comprehensive financial support package for the aviation sector and its supply chain which supports almost a quarter of a million jobs and protects the environment.