Staff should be deployed to ensure passengers have filled in their locator forms correctly union boss claims
Immigration Services Union s Lucy Moreton said checks at end of line are being carried out by border workers
Their training could be used to check documents at the front to speed up the long queues, she added
She warned that the current waits will only get worse from next week when holidaying Britons return home
Delays were yesterday blamed on not enough Border Force staff present to carry out the locator form checks
The lender has sent letters to its customers announcing that it will increase the monthly fee on its Business Extra and Electronic Business tariffs, available to firms making more than £3m in turnover.
5million Britons have already taken advantage of cheaper prices and booked to travel abroad to amber list destinations, with the majority planning to head to Spain, France and Greece.
Wealthy nations must stop hoarding Covid vaccines and share them with poorer countries, a body representing the world s jab makers said today.
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations called for immediate action to address the vaccine apartheid that has emerged.
It warned a stepping up of responsible dose sharing was the only way to end the global pandemic and prevent dangerous new variants from cropping up.
The body – which represents AstraZeneca and Pfizer – said manufacturers were on track to have produce 11billion doses by the end of this month, enough to fully vaccinate the world s adult population. Critically, however, Covid vaccines currently are not equally reaching all priority populations worldwide, the IFPMA added in a statement.
Professor Andrew Pollard, a scientist who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19, has criticised vaccine inequity around the world.