DEBATE: Should international travel be reopened this summer? Gabriel Scally, President of Epidemiology & Public Health at the Royal Society of Medicine and member of Independent Sage, says No The NHS delivered vaccination programme has been a game-changer for COVID-19. We might completely suppress the virus across the UK. If that happens, we can get back to a much more normal life and [...]
Save Our Summer: The travel industry is pulling the emergency alarm Travel firms large and small are united in outrage. In recent days, government ministers have unsettled consumers and the entire travel sector by telling UK citizens not to book a holiday in the UK or abroad, now or indeed ever. It is hard to think of a more damaging approach to boosting confidence and it’s [...]
Quarantine quagmire – when will UK plc be open for business? Quarantine quagmire – when will UK plc be open for business? If ever the term “too many cooks” needed a case study, then you’d need look no further than the government’s quarantine policy for those arriving in the UK. There are no fewer than four government departments which have a say in the policy – the Department for Transport, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and [...]
