Cut-off Britain is losing more than its summer holidays Shut away thanks to onerous travel rules, the rest of the world is quickly forgetting about us 5 June 2021 • 7:00am Let’s get the obnoxious stuff out of the way up top: I’ve been on holiday. A proper holiday to Portugal, where the sun shone, local plonk was drunk, and cobbles and sand were giddily tottered over. It was brilliant, because how could it not be? But with Portugal now shunted from green to amber on the UK’s travel list to nowhere, that prospect – that one, little quarantine-free light at the end of the tunnel for many – has been extinguished before it began. Forget the vaccines or the three (three!) tests required – at great expense and stress, before and after green list flights – nothing, according to our Government, is sufficient to crack the travel door open even a little. This “health fundamentalism”, as Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa termed it, “does not recognise that we live in a different situation than we lived in before vaccination”. Quite.