A UK minister was asked about vaccine passports and he said he was “not attracted to the idea here at home” – arguing the UK is not a “papers-carrying country”.

We carry driving licences with photos, your bus pass has a photo and when we will eventually drive to the continent we will have green cards and international driving licenses and a new health card.

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If other countries nearest to us insist that entry can only be guaranteed with a vaccine passport along with your UK passport, then either the UK follows on or we are all quarantined on the islands like asylum seekers in the great Priti plan of yore.

No doubt if the US were to make vaccine passports mandatory, the PM would doff his bunnet, smarten up his hair and agree!

John Edgar
Kilmaurs