Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: Transport Secretary’s Spanish self-isolation shows ‘risk for everyone’

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Picture credit: Sky News

Dominic Raab – ‘Swift decisive action’ needed on new quarantine rules

The government updated its rules on foreign travel yesterday so that anybody returning to the UK from Spain has to self-isolate for 14 days. The new guidance reflects the discovery of 971 new coronavirus cases in Spain in one day, prompting fears of a second wave in the country. Sophy Ridge interviewed the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and asked him to justify the rapid imposition of the new quarantine guidance:

SR: Why was the decision taken with so little notice?

DR: …We took the decision as swiftly as we could. We can’t make apologies for doing so.

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