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The “hotel quarantine” plan has been plunged into confusion, with the government unable to say when it will come into force – or the list of countries targeted.
Further details will be set out “next week”, Priti Patel said, despite ministers having spent at least two weeks considering how to introduce the policy.
The Home Secretary was also unable to say how many passengers are expected to be placed in isolation for 10 days, with a bill for thousands of pounds – telling MPs she was still “working out capacity”.
Ms Patel insisted ministers were “working quickly across government to bring in these new measures”, adding: “Further details will be put out in due course.”
Labour’s shadow Home Secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, accused the government of “lurching from one crisis to another, devoid of strategy”.
“The measures outlined today are yet another example of this – too little, too late,” he told Ms Patel.
“Limiting hotel quarantining to only a limited number of countries from which travel from non-UK residents was already banned means that the Home Secretary’s proposals do not go anywhere near far enough.”
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