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Restrictions for people entering the uk are to be dropped. after nearly two years of changing restrictions, they will all go. that means no tests or passenger locator forms for any passengers. 0ur travel correspondent, katy austin, has more. well, the transport secretary has announced that all remaining measures will go from four o'clock on friday morning. testing requirements for fully vaccinated passengers coming into the uk were already dropped in february, and now, people who aren't fully vaccinated will also no longer have to take a predeparture or post—arrival covid test, and nobody wi...

Remaining measures would go from four o'clock on friday morning. testing requirements for fully vaccinated passengers coming into the uk were already dropped in february and now people who are not fully vaccinated will also no longer have to take a predeparture or post—arrival covid test and nobody will have to fill in a passenger locator form. will have to fill in a passenger locatorform. the will have to fill in a passenger locator form. the government says it is keeping some contingency measures in reserve in case another harmful variant comes along. but it insists they will only be used ...

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said lifting the requirements would allow ‘greater freedom in time for Easter’ to go abroad.

Looking for any clues about whether the plan b restrictions in england will be extended beyond january 26th, because that is when they are currently meant to expire, they are meant to be reviewed tomorrow. but yesterday boris johnson, when he was talking to the media, talked about pressure on the nhs over the next few weeks or more. which if you do your grammar and work out your plurals, that could take you beyond the end of january. so i wonder if there will be any clues tomorrow about the plan b review, about when plan b might actually come to an end. ministers are also meeting about what so...

So, that's one step. and i'm sure listeners will appreciate that the government's looking at the data all the time and putting in contingency measures. it would be wrong of us if we didn't, it would be wrong of us if we didn't plan for more staff absences. we've also got to remember that as part of plan b people are asked to work from home, and that will help to ease some of the pressures on the rail operators and the nhs. and the leader of the labour party is giving a speech later, what do you think that will be about? politics getting back to normal after being about covid for a few weeks, b...