“There is an obvious loophole and it’s very difficult to close,” Professor Pennington said.
“You can’t have border guards at Gretna, it would just be impossible to do administratively.
“If there’s a policy and they haven’t worked out the details, then it’s a daft policy. I think they will just have to live with the English system – there are hardly any international flights arriving into Scotland now anyway.
“In Australia and New Zealand they don’t have different policies about this. We’re one island, so you really have to have the same policy for England, Scotland and Wales.”
Nicola Sturgeon s new travel rules will come into force next week (Image: GETTY) Scottish airports have been virtually closed down for ages. A couple of rooms at a Premium Hotel would probably be all that was needed!
A second person tweeted: Sturgeon has NO place to demand England quarantine arrivals heading to Scotland. If she believes they should be quarantined, they can do so on arrival in Scotland.
And yet a third wrote: On quarantine for International arrivals Nicola Sturgeon s SNP decided to apply different rules to those being applied by the rest of the UK.
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