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Zari Tadayon looks from her hotel room window at members of the media outside the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, one of the new Government managed quarantine facilities
BORIS JOHNSON’S rushed Covid-19 hotel quarantine plans are putting workers and the country at risk, GMB warned today.
The Prime Minister’s scheme could allow more contagious strains of the virus to spread because security and hotel staff have been left without proper protections, the union said.
The new rules require British and Irish nationals and UK residents who return from 33 “red list” countries, such as Portugal, Brazil and South Africa, to spend 10 days in government-sanctioned hotels.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
