Letters
We don t have answers to basic questions such as the number of arrivals from South Africa since the new variant originating in that country was identified I CHARGE this Tory government with a complete and utter dereliction of duty from the beginning of this global pandemic in 2020 to the present, painfully slow, closing of our borders in 2021. The government knew about the new, more easily spread, deadly South African strain of Covid in late December but only now, supposedly starting next week, will measures be put in place to check and control people coming into the UK. In Piers Morgan’s ITV morning show a stream of government ministers have been unable to answer basic questions, such as the sizeable number of people from South Africa who have and are still coming into the country from the beginning of this year and also how many hotels, if any, have signed up to the government’s late, late scheme.