A French minister has described the UK government's decision to keep quarantine measures for travellers coming from France while removing them for all other European countries as 'discriminatory' and 'excessive'.
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Earlier this week, Mr Shapps confirmed England would allow fully vaccinated visitors from both the EU and the United States to arrive without needing to quarantine from 2 August.amber listMr Shapps said this advice would be reviewed at"the end of next week" as part of an ongoing assessment of travel rules.
When Mr Beaune's comments were put to him on Sky News, Mr Shapps said he understood the disappointment but disagreed with the French minister's claim that the UK government are not following the science with decision making. Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said:"If they misinterpreted the data over cases in mainland France they need to come clean and apologise.
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