Coronavirus: What difference will the quarantine hotels make?

What do you make of the new hotel quarantine rules and the other restrictions that the government has put in place? Will they have much effect?

A I will be better placed to answer your question when the government has actually said exactly what it will be doing – and when – to try to limit the risk from coronavirus imported into the UK. We learnt that airlines, ferry companies and train operators have yet another task to fulfil on pain of a heavy fine. They will need to assess whether British residents leaving the UK are legally entitled to travel abroad, by dint of one of the few exemptions – mainly for work, education, medical treatment and essential family reasons.