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The End Is Not Nigh: Tory MPs Fear Return of Plans for Vaccine Passports

by Michael Curzon
12 September 2021 9:24 PM

For some Tory MPs, the scrapping of plans for vaccine passports does not go far enough. Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Andrew Marr on the BBC this morning that while the Government will not be going ahead with its plans this month, it will “keep [vaccine passports] in reserve as a potential option”. Some backbenchers have pointed out that this leaves the door open for the introduction of vaccination checks a little further down the line (potentially this winter). The Guardian has the story.

Some Tory MPs had assumed it was an empty threat, designed to drive up levels of vaccination uptake among young people. More than 40 of Johnson’s own backbenchers had publicly vowed to vote against making such documents a condition of entry to some venues – enough to wipe out the Conservatives’ substantial Commons majority. …

Industry figures also welcomed the news. Sacha Lord, the founder of Parklife festival and Night-Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, called vaccine passports “untenable and illogical”, while the Music Venues Trust said there were serious issues of “deliverability, practicality, equality and potential discrimination”.

However, Conservative MPs remained wary that the Government was simply pausing its introduction of vaccine passports. Mark Harper, the Chair of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “They shouldn’t be kept in reserve – they are pointless, damaging and discriminatory.” Another backbencher said: “The very concept of vaccine passports needs to be ruled out for good, as they are fundamentally unconservative, discriminatory and would lead to a two-tier society that I am confident no one actually wants to see.”

Stephen Reicher, who advises the Government on behavioural science, told the Guardian he hoped ministers had shelved the vaccine passports plan based on the scientific arguments against it, but admitted: “I don’t believe that, sadly it’s probably politics.” 

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: The Government should go even further than taking vaccine passports out of their “reserves” by banning them altogether, says Telegraph cartoonist Bob Moran, because “so many businesses and events are going to impose them regardless [of today’s roll back]”.

The other thing to bear in mind with V-passports is that so many businesses and events are going to impose them regardless, because people have lost their minds.

What the government really needs to do is make them illegal. How likely do you think that is?

— Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) September 12, 2021
Tags: VaccineVaccine Passports

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