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Photo: Raphael Surmont On Dec 21, the government announced that all arrivals from the UK since Dec 14 must isolate, bringing holidays to an abrupt halt for around 420 people. By Sunday, fewer than a dozen remained in the Alpine resort. Rather than stay cooped up in their chalets, they decided to take flight. While some chose to cross the border by train, others left in the dead of night, fearful that hoteliers would report them to police. Britons not subject to the restrictions said they felt they had to speak in "hushed tones" when out and about to avoid a grilling. The ensuing chaos prompte...

Among those who fled the country last week was Andy Wigmore, one of the self-styled "bad boys of Brexit" best known for his work on the "Leave EU" campaign. Wigmore had flown to Wengen with his wife, two children and two of their friends, for a week's skiing and had been due to return home on Christmas Eve. They were on the slopes when they were warned by a local that the border would close at 6pm that evening, prompting them to drop everything and flee. "We had to get out of there or we'd have been stuck," he told

'I don't blame them for leaving': How British skiers fled Covid quarantine in Verbier While some chose to cross the border by train, others left in the dead of night, fearful that hoteliers would report them to police 28 December 2020 • 7:00pm They had fled a wet and gloomy UK for the fresh powdered snow and bright blue skies of Switzerland's finest ski resort. But in the end, perhaps unsurprisingly, British tourists discovered that it was mighty difficult to escape a global pandemic and instead found themselves making a frantic dash back home. Hundreds of Britons who had opted for a festiv...