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UK Covid live news: Labour condemns ‘reckless’ quarantine lifting for those vaccinated in US and EU

Latest updates: Angela Rayner criticises Boris Johnson’s plan to let amber list arrivals who were jabbed in the US or EU avoid quarantine

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And here are some more non-Covid lines from Boris Johnson’s LBC interview.

I don’t wish to comment on any of the sayings of any of my former advisors, who are now many … I looked at it the other day; in the last year I think we’ve had about 220 people arrive in Number 10. I don’t know how many have left, quite a few, and I’m sure they’ve all got something interesting to say, but I have no intention of commenting on it.

It is a project that will … help to revive the ship building industry in this country, drive immediate jobs and growth for young people in a sector in which this country used to lead the world.

When you consider the opportunity for the UK, as we compete now for inward investment in the UK, we need a place where the best of British business and industry can come together to showcase what we have to offer.

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No one would want to pay our fantastic police more than I would. We’re just going through a tough time financially for the government and I think most people do understand that.

Labour has described the plan to let people who have been fully vaccinated in the US and EU avoid quarantine if arriving from amber list countries, which are expected to be approved by ministers today, as “reckless”. This is what Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, told Sky News this morning when asked about the proposals. She said:

At the moment, everybody wants to go on holiday and get back to normal as quickly as possible, but this is reckless.

We know that the Delta variant came into this country and delayed the lifting of some of the restrictions and caused infections here. We need to make sure that we’ve got proper data-driven analysis, and that we look at an international passport for vaccines.

So therefore we believe that at the moment the government hasn’t done enough to safeguard our borders, and we haven’t got an internationally recognised vaccine passport, which is what the government said they were working towards. So it does feel reckless.

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