Re: 'Where is Priti Patel?'
Covid: Would-be travellers must prove journey is essential - Patel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55821702
People wishing to travel out of the UK will first be required to declare their reason for travel and prove it is essential, the home secretary has said.
Priti Patel said declarations would be checked by carriers and there would be increased police at airports and ports.
The PM said earlier that UK nationals and residents returning from "red list" Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in government-provided hotels.
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said protecting the UK's borders was one of the key areas where the government had "fallen short" and he was "deeply concerned" the latest measures were "yet another example of this - too little, too late".
He added proposals to limit hotel quarantine to the specific "red list" of countries did "not go anywhere near far enough", adding the measures left "huge gaps" in the UK's defences against emerging variants of the virus.
Even now, when Patel's finally showing herself (after a year of virtual invisibility), her pandemic preventative travel measures are pathetically inadequate .....