Agents in Scotland have lambasted the UK government’s decision to remove Portugal from its quarantine-free green list for international travel, warning it heralds a return to last summer’s travel corridor "hokey cokey".
After hours of leaks to the national press, which caused consternation for travel businesses, transport secretary Grant Shapps finally confirmed the government’s decision at around 4.30pm on Thursday afternoon (3 June).
Shapps said the government’s Joint Biosecurity Centre had advised removing Portugal owing to the emergence of another new variant of Covid-19, understood to be a mutation of the Delta strain of the virus (commonly known as the so-called Indian variant).
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