Nick Thomas-Symonds – 2021 Comments on UK Hotel Quarantine System

The comments made by Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Shadow Home Secretary, on 20 March 2021.

The renewed surges of Covid across Europe are really worrying. The UK’s first priority has to be to protect the progress made by the vaccine – that means we need a comprehensive hotel quarantine system without further delay.

Of course we all want international travel to resume, but safety has to come first. It is too early to say if there can be any changes to travel advice on 17 May, as numbers in many European countries are increasing so sharply. We have to be led by the science, not arbitrary dates.