Tony Blair calls for vaccinated people to be released from lockdown restrictions
Former PM s think tank calls for global virus passports and the right for businesses to refuse entry
6 June 2021 • 12:13am
Tony Blair s think tank lays out a vision for how the country could remain open if the virus persists in the population
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Tony Blair has called for the vaccinated to be released from lockdown restrictions and said businesses should have the right to only admit jabbed customers.
In a report called ‘Less Risk, More Freedom’, the former prime minister’s think tank lays out a vision for how the country could remain open if the virus persists in the population.
Former prime minister Tony Blair has said it is “time to distinguish for the purposes of freedom” between people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated when it comes to travel and domestically.
Mr Blair also described the NHS app that proves vaccination as “inadequate” as he said it makes “no sense at all to treat those who have had vaccination as the same as those who haven’t”.
The former Labour leader was reacting to a report published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change which says “vaccine status matters” and champions the idea of health passes “to allow citizens to prove their status in a secure, privacy-preserving way”.
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