10,000 travellers a day from 'high-risk' nations set to avoid hotel quarantine, Labour say

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Ten thousand travellers from "high-risk" countries are set to avoid the UK's hotel quarantine policy on its very first day, Labour claim.

Sir Keir Starmer has demanded a tougher border regime after presenting Labour analysis that shows the shortfalls of Boris Johnson's crackdown.

From Monday, Brits returning to England from 33 'red list' countries, where there are new variants of Covid-19, will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine for 10 days in a hotel.

But Labour say the hotel policy will only cover around 1 in 20 of all arrivals to the UK from around the world. Only 4,600 hotel rooms have been contracted so far, despite Boris Johnson saying 20,000 people in total are arriving each day.