Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Friday (25 June) after confirming an extension of the UK’s green list late on Thursday (24 June), Shapps said the government was "trying to be as transparent as possible" about the decision-making process behind its traffic light regime.
"If you take Malta, for example, the only country in Europe with a higher [rate of] vaccination than the UK with a very good system of monitoring and sequencing the coronavirus, it looks unlikely to us that’s something [green list status] we will need to change in the very short term," Shapps told BBC Breakfast.
