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All arrivals from 30 countries into the UK will be required to quarantine in a government-provided hotel for ten days, under new regulations announced by the home secretary Priti Patel (pictured).
BTN Europe last week, means that all people arriving from countries on the government’s red list of countries with known variants of Covid, including South Africa, Brazil and Portugal, will have enter quarantine in a government-provided facility rather than self-isolating at home.
Speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, Patel said, “It is clear there are too many people coming in and out of the UK each day”.
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“Welcome to the Brexit, sir” – those were the words now
famously uttered by a Dutch border official to a British driver as he
confiscated his ham sandwiches upon arrival in the Netherlands earlier this
month. The subtext might have been: “your nation voted for this folly – deal
with it”.
Following the completion of the transition period at 11pm on
December 31, when ties between the UK and European Union were severed, the
exchange became an early symbol of Brexit’s
impact – however trivial the moment captured by a Dutch TV crew appeared.
With the freedom of movement for the UK’s people, goods,