Grant Shapps has told the House of Commons it is time to "liberalise" the UK’s travel rules and ensure 2022 "is the year in which restrictions on travel, lockdowns and limits on people’s lives are firmly placed in the past".
Shapps also chaired an ineffectual travel taskforce during Covid (Credit: @GrantShapps / Twitter)
The transport secretary’s comments came after prime minister Boris Johnson confirmed the government would further ease the government’s Covid travel regime in the coming weeks.
Johnson said Day 2 testing for fully vaccinated arrivals into the UK would be scrapped, while Covid passes for travel are set to be extended to 12- to 15-year-olds from 3 February.
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