Tory ministers are locking horns over Boris Johnson’s decision to move France into the “amber plus” travel list. Health Secretary Sajid Javid has been accused of scaring the Prime Minister into rolling out the measures on July 16.
The Government introduced an exemption for double-jabbed holidaymakers to avoid self-isolating at home for 10 days, once they returned from countries on the amber list.
But ministers removed the exemption for France amid concerns over the Beta variant, leaving millions quarantined for up to 10 days with both vaccinations.
It came as a surprise to some Tory MPs as research published the day the decision was made, showed a single dose of the Oxford AZ jab was 83 per cent effective at stopping hospitalisations
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