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France has opened it's UK border now, but you need to have a negative PCR test within 72 hours. It's going to take quite some time to shift the backlog with that condition in place! I wonder who will be paying for it too?

The new information was given to Matt Hancock as early as at least last Monday 14th as he 'announced' it in Parliament, almost certainly earlier considering PHE is part of the Department of Health and Social Care, i.e. the Government. If not, that would be a bit worrying... At the time I...

There is a difference between new information and confirmed information. I would be very surprised if PHE found this new information and confirmed it on the same day What is much more likely was this new information was actually new back in around September, albeit at that time it was...

Obviously.

It does seem unlikely that they only found out about this new strain last week. It became public news last week but that's not the same thing. Presumably, IMO, they were hoping it wasn't going to be bad news and nothing would need to change.

Yes, also the village of Groombridge, the northern, Kent half in Tier 4, the southern Wealden half in tier 2!

Sounds silly, until you appreciate that to get bladdered in a pub in Pevensey you would need to be eating a substantial meal, such as a scotch egg.

Seems slightly strange to have tier 2 immediately next to tier 4 areas, I guess there has to be a boundary somewhere though.

Sounds like only current tier 3 areas going to tier 4?

Well this is a load of bollocks. Appreciate it's easy to say with hindsight, but, IMO, the approach should have been start with a relatively high level of restriction planned over Christmas and eased it nearer the time if viable.; instead they have done the opposite. Wonder how far west Tier...