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Keir Starmer urges Government to test holidaymakers twice to reduce quarantine

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Returning holidaymakers should be tested twice for coronavirus to reduce the quarantine period, Keir Starmer has said. The Labour leader urged ministers to consider testing people at airports when they return to the UK and then testing them again a few days later.

British tourists in Spain faced chaos when the Government abruptly decided to scrap quarantine-free travel with the country at the weekend - forcing people to isolate for 14 days on returning home.

Cabinet Minister Oliver Dowden said there was "no viable alternative" to the two-week quarantine period for returning tourists, and insisted testing people at airports was not a "silver bullet".

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