Matt Hancock said yesterday that travellers who try to hide having been in high-risk countries could be jailed for up to 10 years. From Monday, all arrivals from 33 ‘red list’ countries will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine for 10 days in Government-designated hotels.
The Health Secretary unveiled the extreme borders crackdown while saying it was necessary to stop mutant strains entering the UK.
But his announcement sparked backlash from former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption, who branded the maximum prison sentence as ‘inhumane’, and ex-Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who described it as ‘draconian’.
The jail term is longer than the seven-year maximum penalties
received for racially-aggravated assault (ABH or GBH), carrying a
firearm in a public place, incest with a child under 13 and attempted
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