Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon has written to transport secretary Grant Shapps setting out where the UK’s rules currently overlap, and has demanded explanations for the government’s decision to pursue a test to release scheme rather simply requiring travellers to meet the same pre-travel testing requirements many other countries have sought.
McMahon has called on government to publish the scientific evidence underpinning its travel corridor list, which currently allows people to travel to England without certification of a pre-travel negative Covid test or having to quarantine on arrival.
