Health secretary Matt Hancock and prime minister Boris Johnson have both waded into the row to urge people not to travel to amber and red list destinations, despite it being perfectly legal for them to do so – and safe to do so, according to the findings of the report of the government’s own Global Travel Taskforce.
The taskforce last month set out its plan to restart international travel "safely and robustly" through a new traffic light system, which the government formally announced on Friday 7 May. It came into effect on Monday (17 May).
