Ministers back down over limiting travel to English Covid hotspots
It was criticised by Conservative and Labour politicians as having been introduced “by stealth” after it appeared on the government website last week with no warning. At lunchtime, Downing Street defended the move as part of a concerted shift away from legislation and towards individual judgment – but critics said this would mean cautious people bearing the weight of reducing the variant’s spread. “We are moving away from central government edicts back to the situation where the public are able to exercise their judgment and that is what we are seeing up and down the country,” a N...