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MPs and travel bosses furious at the cautious green list as thousands of Brits made a dash for the beaches of Portugal 18th May 2021 0 4
\nTRAVEL bosses and MPs raged at the Government\u2019s cautious green list yesterday as thousands of Brits made a dash for the beaches of Portugal.
\nAnd, as the first tourists jetted off for some southern sunshine, Boris Johnson\u2019s former right-hand man Dominic Cummings branded Britain\u2019s Covid borders policy a \u201cjoke\u201d.
\nRead our coronavirus live blog for the latest updates Thousands of Brits made a dash for the beaches of Portugal after holidays were made legal again yesterday
\nBut travel bosses and MPs raged at the cautious green list
\nThe PM and Health Secretary Matt Hancock were urged to add more popular sunshine destinations to the green list by the start of the summer season.
\nEasyJet chief Johan Lundgren wants ministers to make more of Europe green, warning: \u201cThe Germans are going to beat the Brits to the sun loungers and for no good reason at all.\u201d
\nJust 12 countries and territories are on the green list for quarantine-free travel \u2014 with only Portugal and Gibraltar sunshine destinations. The likes of France, Spain, Italy and Greece are all amber, with Mr Hancock yesterday urging people not to travel.
\nHe said: \u201cUnless you have an exceptional reason, you should not be travelling there.\u201d
\nTory MP Huw Merriman, chairman of the influential Transport Select Committee fumed: \u201cCan I ask you what the point of me having my passport is anymore?\u201d He added: \u201cWhen will this government actually take a little bit of risk and allow people to get on with their lives again?\u201d
\nIt emerged last night that the 27 EU states were tomorrow likely to add the UK to their white list of countries from which tourists were allowed.
\nIt comes as Boris Johnson was urged to add more popular sunshine destinations to the list by the start of the summer season
\nMatt Hancock yesterday urged people not to travel to countries such as France, Spain, Italy and Greece, unless for \u2018exceptional reasons\u2019 \u2018A catastrophic misstep\u2019
\nBrits heading to Portugal yesterday were delighted to be able to finally get away. Kevin and Pauline Nash, from Essex, were among the first to board a green list flight to Faro in Portugal from Gatwick.
\nCompany chairman Kevin, 66, said: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to go on holiday, we haven\u2019t been away since last September. It\u2019s been a long, cold winter at home so we\u2019re looking forward to it.\u201d
\nAli White, 54, was heading to Faro with student midwife daughter Becca, 27 and husband Paul, an engineer. She said: \u201cWe\u2019ve an apartment there we haven\u2019t seen in 14 months.\u201d
\nDavid and Hazel Allsopp said they were glad to be returning to their home on the Algarve after getting stuck in the UK visiting family in December. David, 82, said: \u201cIt\u2019ll be nice to finally get back home to the sunshine.\u201d
\nJamelah May, 42, from London, was travelling from Heathrow to Faro with ten-year-old daughter Miley-May. She said: \u201cIn the past year I\u2019ve lost my business and it\u2019s been horrific.\u201d
\nMeanwhile, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth called the UK\u2019s borders policy a \u201csieve\u201d. He said: \u201cThe delay in adding India to the red list surely now stands as a catastrophic misstep.\u201d
\nBritish holidaymakers are some of the first to fly to Gibraltar
\nDavid and Lynne Wilson, daughter Kelly and tot in Gibraltar
\nShadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \u2018The delay in adding India to the red list surely now stands as a catastrophic misstep\u2019 Boris Johnson\u2019s former de facto chief of staff Dominic Cummings blasted the \u2018joke border policy\u2019
\nThe PM\u2019s former de facto chief of staff Dominic Cummings also blasted the \u201cjoke border policy\u201d and said Britain should have acted more like Taiwan to combat the virus.
\nMP Greg Clark labelled the ban on flying to amber countries \u201crather strange advice\u201d. And ex Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt asked for \u201cabsolute clarity\u201d on the amber list.
\nBritish Airways boss Sean Doyle said there were many reasons why people needed to travel and the advice was not clear. TAGS<\/p>\n

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