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🔴 Priti Patel is about to make a statement on quarantine hotels for travellers from at-risk countries.

The Home Secretary is expected to set out further steps to ensure there is "less flow of individuals" into England.

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The Home Secretary starts by saying her thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones.

She says it is clear there are still too many people coming in and out of the UK and explains she is reducing passenger flow

Priti Patel says:

🔹 Police stepped up checks, including physical addresses

🔹 The country will refuse entry to non-UK travellers from the red list

🔹 Managed isolation process in hotels for those who cannot refuse entry

"We are still seeing people not complying with these rules. The rules are clear - people should be staying at home, unless they have a valid reason to leave."

Anyone wanting to travel must make a "valid declaration" about why they wish to do so, she says
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Priti Patel says that carriers will check reasons for travel on departure.

Police presence will also be increased at ports and airports, with people directed to return home if they do not have a valid reason, or they will face a fine
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The Home Secretary confirms a new "managed isolation process" of hotel quarantine will be introduced from those arriving home from countries where international travel bans have already been imposed.

"They will be required to isolate for 10 days, without exemption," she says

The Labour Party is calling for an extensive hotel quarantine system, says shadow home secretary Jonathan Ashworth.

He accuses the Government of having been "too decisive" during the course of the lockdown
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Priti Patel says it is "important to recognise" that the UK is in a very different situation because of the new variants, amid the progress of the vaccine roll-out.

"These are a number of new protections at our disposal but also forthcoming with regards to hotels"

The Home Office says the Immigration Service from tomorrow will be "checking over 5,000 people".

There will be enhanced police presence at ports, borders and airports.

She said there will "be 1,000 targeted follow-up visits a day" for those who have been told to self-isolate

Priti Patel says the Government will work with all of the devolved administrations.

She says that Labour and the SNP are "going retrospective with thinking they were the first advocates" of border control
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Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee, highlights that one million jobs depend on aviation.

He says that if further countries needed to be added to the 'red list' of countries, financial support would be needed to prevent a "haemorrhaging" of jobs
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Labour MP Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, says that the measures "don't go far enough".

She says that the majority of cases in the first wave came from other European countries deemed 'low-risk' at the time

Priti Patel says it is "absolutely right" that airports work with the Border Force and Home Office in checking with carriers that passenger locator forms are completed.

She says airports must also put measures in place to stop the spread of the virus
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The Home Secretary then calls time on influencers.

"People should simply not be travelling," she says.

"We see plenty of influencers on social media showing off about which parts of the world they are in, mainly in sunny parts of the world"
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Sir Graham Brady also tells the Commons he is concerned of the economic damage adding more countries to the red list will do to the UK.

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