I realise of course that weddings are legally allowed, but with singing and dancing banned, I do not think they will look like the parties that many of us know weddings to be. I want my thoughts today to be with all those who have seen their wedding plans turned upside down. The fallout from that chain of events is enormous for pubs and restaurants that were desperate to open up properly again for friends planning group holidays that have been ruined for our towns and city centres hoping to have been bustling with workers again for concerts, sports stadiums, theatres and festivals that were supposed to be filling up and for families looking forward to great big get-togethers, celebrating milestones, birthdays, children being born and marriages. That delay is happening because of the delta variant first identified in India, and the delta variant is here in such force because of lax Conservative border policy. Let us be absolutely clear: the impact of what the Prime Minister announced last night is devastating, but it was not inevitable. Freedoms that have been denied us for so long seemed within our grasp, yet they have been snatched away. The news that the Prime Minister has announced a delay in the reopening on 21 June was a hammer blow to people across the country.

However, it gives me no pleasure whatsoever to be standing here yet again calling for this Government to act to secure our borders against the threat of new variants of covid.

I rise to speak to the motion in my name and those of my right hon. Believes that there must be a clear, simply understood and proper hotel quarantine scheme in operation at the UK border to minimise the risk of introduction of new variants into the UK Ĭalls on the Government to immediately scrap the Amber List category of the Government’s Traffic Light System for travel and place all of those countries currently on the Amber List onto the Red List, whilst maintaining a tightly managed Green List, so as not to risk undermining the UK’s successful NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme įurther calls on the Government to work with international partners to introduce an international vaccine passport allowing for the safe resumption of travel, to publish all data on international travel arrivals, and to provide details of the decision-making process on the Traffic Light System Īnd reiterates the need for a sector-specific support deal for aviation.

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