Thread by @Femi_Sorry

Hi @GrantShapps
Apart from freight drivers, you need to restrict the number of people who can enter the UK to the number of hotel rooms available for mandatory quarantine.
If we get Covid down to low numbers by May, but a vaccine-resistant strain has already got in, It's on you.

Thanks @Lee4NED for publicly saying the reason you won't impose mandatory hotel quarantines on travellers from all countries is that the policy may become permanent. (from a government with 15+ U-turns)
Makes holding you to account for the consequences much easier.
@SkyNewsIsabel

Thanks @MattHancock.
You just publicly admitted that you're only going to impose mandatory hotel quarantine on countries where you've already identified that there's a new variant.
Waiting for a Covid disaster before you take preventative measures has worked really well so far!

With the nation-wide roll-out of the vaccine, the use of masks and rapid testing, and a full barrier on any new strains entering the UK, we could be at ZERO COVID by the end of the summer.
Instead, you're all disregarding SAGE's advice.
THIS. IS. ON. YOU.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19…

Echoing SAGE's advice, @JayneSeckerSky said only 1% of new infections came from China last year, so we should learn the lesson that we might not be able to predict where new variant will emerge.

@JamesCleverly said the past is irrelevant.

Clearly Cleverly is Cleverer than SAGE.