Ministers 'consider relaxing UK travel quarantine'

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Government looking at ways to relax 14-day quarantine rule for people entering UK over coming months, BBCNewsnight learns

Image captionAnnouncing the plan last month, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the measure would"reduce the risk of cases crossing our border".

One former cabinet minister told Newsnight the idea was"daft" and suggested the government will not"go to the stake on this".saying it was"deeply worrying for our economy and our country". Last month, the bosses of airlines including EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic also said they had"serious reservations" about a"blanket approach" to all arrivals into Britain.What will flying look like after lockdown?

 

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night I really don't think this is a good idea 🙄

night Total mess, agree deal with France only to retract it, introduce measures that would not have been out of place early March but are now much more nuanced. Govt at its finest ..

night So we bring in guidance about quarantine which we now intend to relax before it's even put in place...🤔

night What matters more, the citizens of The UK or tourists? I know who I would choose over the others!

night If we are topping the world's death chart, who would want to travel to the UK! Keep the lockdown measures on before you think about anything else! BorisJohnson MattHancock ukhomeoffice CMO_England

night Will I or will I not be going to Spain in August Don't really fancy flying, but if flights operate and I choose not to go I'm a grand down... certainly don't fancy 14 day quarantine when back..given how many people arrived from God knows where in the early days 🤷🏽‍♂️

night Did it come across their mind that people could get self tested? Or not yet?🙄

night Come and visit but don't go anywhere.. No, don't come and visit but go where you want... No wait.... Come here but don't come here, stay put but visit wherever you want..... Yeah, that should do.... Print the poster....

night Staying safe in Australia, thanks. Love travelling overseas, have UK friends and relatives I would love to visit, but now is NOT the time.

night Relax something that isn’t happening 😳 That’s novel 🤯

night Can’t they see that this quarantine makes the U.K. a laughing stock it’s one of the most dodgy places to come and yes I would come if the quarantine was removed

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night Give the rich their way. stuff the poor When the virus surfaces again The tories will cry wolf. No quarantine is a big ask. Stupid tories

night Another poorly thought out plan from our illustrious leaders 🤦🏻‍♂️

night The rule won't be enforced until 8th June (thanks to more dither and delay from Johnson) and they're already looking at ways to relax it? Strong leadership.

night This Vrus originated in China, the only way it could have spread was by air travel and killed thousands of people worldwide 🤑🤑🤧😷🤨😎

night Where you from Whutan, fire in mate first on the right into the car park you’ll get a bus or taxi enjoy your stay

shaun_loveland night So this will be the Home Secretary’s 2nd u turn. I don’t think she’s very good at Home Secretary stuff is she? Much better at smirking and bullying juniors.

night Have quarantine rules started yet & the government are already looking at how to relax them? They’re an absolute joke.

night 'one possible date for a relaxation to the rule could be 20 July' House of Commons recess date is 21 July Just saying

night You haven’t even introduced it yet for gods sake-prepare for a second wave people

night All those jolly chums with holiday homes abroad want the change and if a few of us they see as unimportant die so they can holiday tough

night This 14 quarantine will never happen has it would mean that the people who should quarantine would have to be under cctv for the two weeks as people can’t be trusted and anyway why are they travelling

night Criterion met = backbench unrest - Not following the science

night Do not give them credit for relaxing rules that should have been introduced months ago and introduced too late. Having made a mess they simply need to reverse this stupid decision and not suggest it’s somehow their competence it can be changed.

night Good, you should do it same way as in Austria, 20 minutes test worth 166£ after landing or 14 days of quarantine. Second idea are air bridges to low risk countries but I don't think any low risk countries want to be open to Britain at the moment.

night Public trust in UK government crashes in new poll

night They have only just started it

night My view is. Terminate travel for the next year Globally.. My passport has expired and not to be renewed. Advantages will be enormous

night Easy to avoid quarantine - catch a dinghy across the channel with help from the French navy. Come on BBC report on this illegal entry to the UK.

night DON'T! 😷

night This doesn’t come into force until next Monday anyway?

night Worked well in Blackpool too. If you think that BorisJohnson & Ministers are taking this seriously look at this. The relaxation has been rushed. Slow the relaxations allow them to bed in & reintroduce local exercise TWICE daily or R will increase again.

night The huge impact of COVID on the people, who drive the economy, is unknown.The economy has survived centuries of major threats to its health. We are far more fragile and far less robust. We need one micro-moment in time to survive this. Then we'll nurse the economy back to health.

night That would be the quarantine rule they've literally just introduced........

night Don’t bother that horse has left the barn done three circuits around Cheltenham (via Barnard Castle) and is all tucked up back home munching hay. Gesture politics, ‘here’s a policy we almost enacted’.

night While other countries have banned UK holiday/ traveler ..this country is thing relaxing restrictions ffs😡

night Thinking of ways to relax it, even before it's begun🤔🤔 You really couldn't make this up😂😂😂😂

night Not if they come from the EU they should all be given 21 days and from China 30 days

night This BorisJohnson and Co don't seem happy at killing 70,000 people, he wants more people dead.

night The fact is: It's bollocks. The only justification they can present is that it's 'popular' policy.

night They don’t need to look at anything as no one arriving in UK is bothering to ‘self-isolate’ as requested; they will do what they want following the guideline set by DominicCummings It is a totally unenforceable edict just to look as if the government is on top of the crisis

night Why not just be honest and say 'We give up' It's all been such a shambles. There's no dedication to public health it's all about appeasing the rich.

night Don’t understand why people would want to come here bearing in mind the mess we’re in and why countries would want people from here visiting their countries(again, bearing in mind the mess we’re in)

night Over coming months. 🤔 First off, this should’ve been done at the beginning of March, not the beginning of June. BorisJohnson what are you playing at You’re destroying the economy by imposing such rules after coronavirusuk already killed tens of thousands of ppl. WHY NOW? 🤷‍♀️

night Nooooooo

night Gosh..stringent then!..or God someone say money...no tourists no money!...clearly the penny drops for the economy

night They’ve only just brought the rule in 🤦‍♀️

night They already are - Tens of thousands of new arrivals to the UK will be able to go food shopping, change accommodation and use public transport from airports during a 14-day quarantine

night They are not are they, i thought they were going to keep it going till the end of time, just like the lockdown.

night Uk Politicians using human life for gambling. Ignoring scientific advice. Politicians always want to keep their power to gambling with humans life .

night Bring down Cummings did not work. Lets try Track and trace instead. Minster is Track and trace Working ? Yes it is But a lot of the trackers have not been doing any tracking. Thats because the was only 2000 new infections yesterday. Oh. Even Diane Abbot could have worked that out

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night IF BLACK LIVES MATTER to you just take two seconds to hear me out THANK YOU 💜💜

night Of course. When the data changes the policy changes.

night This is not just about holidays. Not seen my OH since February, cancelled wedding and now no idea when we will see each other again. He is serving abroad and there are lots of serving families that haven't seen each other for months.

night 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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night Rich people, 'elite' sports, people who have donated more than £10K to the Conservatives, fruit pickers (poor, but posh people 'need' strawberries). They will be allowed one item from: as hand luggage.

night plagueisland

night ‘Government looking at ways to break their own rules’ 😂

night Donotrelaxit Donotrelaxit Donotrelaxit

night If countries are denying access to UK citizens based on our current high infection level,will they still allow their citizens to visit the UK?

night Wow I really thought this was forever!!

night Does this mean we will enter the government’s hyper-acceleration phase?

night how come boris can have sex with his live in mistress

night Covid-19 news: Health experts say UK contact tracing not robust enough Read more:

night Relax them before the day is even issued everything is a lie.

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