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24 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Over 35,000 people have been held in hotel detention since 15 Feb when the system was introduced.

Currently over 7,500 people questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
The government cannot answer how many people have been given medical exemptions from hotel detention or how many people have asked for them

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
I am dealing with lots of cases involving hotel detention at the moment. My sense is the system is a complete mess and the security company which is running the hotels is not able to deal with medical or other difficulties
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25 May
This is strange - no change the law but ‘stealth guidance’ instead bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Image
This is the guidance gov.uk/guidance/covid… Image
This is the first time, I think, that local guidance has significantly changed without any change to the law. The Steps regulations allow for local areas to be placed into different steps but to date this hasn’t happened.
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19 May
There is some confusion over the travel regulations and what has changed (and confusing messaging)

The truth is that policy over international travel has been confused throughout the pandemic, which suggests (to me, based on experience) policy disagreements

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The government toyed with the idea that international travel was banned under the various "stay at home" regulations but it was only recently (29 March) when the Steps regulations came into force that international travel without a "reasonable excuse" was explicitly prohibited
The "don't travel outside the UK without a reasonable excuse" law lasted until Monday 18 May, so only about 7 weeks.

Hotel quarantine - though discussed since Feb 2020 - only came into law on 15 February 2021
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17 May
I will be on the BBC news channel just after 830 this evening talking about this topic
Part 1/2
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17 May
A good statement.
You may have noticed I have been quiet on the current conflict. That is deliberate - what is happening in Israel-Palestine is very personal for me for various reasons. The issue is hugely important - from a human rights perspective - but not one which I am a particular expert on
and I feel that others on this platform are better placed to comment than I am. I have, as some will know, experienced some difficult and scary situations over the past few years relating to antisemitism and other abuse and I have become a bit more circumspect about what I...
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14 May
🚨The travel regulations have been completely replaced - last thing on Friday before they come into force on Monday

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/582/…
I have no idea if they are substantially different or not - the explanatory note is extremely sparse!

I'm not going to be able to spend the next hour reading the 91 pages for you I'm afraid!
Interestingly, there has been no amendment yet to the Steps regulations to put the country into Step 3 from Monday, or to get rid of the "reasonable excuse" requirement for foreign travel. This is either coming shortly or the govt is going to delay it.
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13 May
I was involved in a campaign at my university to stop David Irving coming to speak, which was successful. It would have been utterly ridiculous (indeed, grotesque) he had been compensated for being disinvited.
I think there are complex issues around freedom of speech and speech which is not illegal, but I am confident those issues are better dealt with on the ground then by some government quango which has been expressly set up to protect particular political viewpoints
The particular example of David Irving is instructive. It was not clear cut that he would be disinvited (indeed, he was reinvited a 2 years later), but there was a thoughtful campaign and debate. There was no attempt to involve law which is not always the sharpest tool in the box
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