As opposition grows to government plans to introduce vaccine passports, not even the Prime Minister appears keen to defend the proposals. In Monday’s press conference, Johnson refused to be drawn into a conversation about the plans and wouldn’t even say whether there would be a Commons vote on the policy. However, government figures suggest the proposals will be put to a vote should they be given the green light in government.
So, how will Keir Starmer vote when the time comes? Today Labour have suggested they will oppose the plans for domestic vaccine passports in their current form. A Labour source told Politico they were unlikely to support the plans ‘on the basis of what we’ve seen and discussed with ministers’. At Tuesday’s meeting of the parliamentary Labour party, the leadership confirmed that on ‘the basis of what we’ve seen, we would oppose domestic vaccine passports’. On
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