The UK’s traffic light rating system for international travel is confusing to the point of being dangerous, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has said.
A risk-based system with red, amber and green ratings for countries around the world determines the quarantine and coronavirus testing requirements people face when returning to the UK.
Portugal being moved from the green to amber caught many holidaymakers by surprise this week and Ms Nandy said the amber list should be scrapped.
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, she said: “I think we’ve got a real, real problem with the travel system that the Government has put in place.
“We’ve currently got countries on the amber list which the Government is basically urging people not to go to but allowing people to go to with very lax quarantine requirements when they come back.
“We think the amber list should be scrapped. We think it’s pointless. We think it’s confusing and that confusion is actually dangerous at the moment.
“It risks unravelling all of the progress that we’ve made.”
Ms Nandy was asked…