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The quarantine debacle could cripple Britain’s travel industry

The quarantine debacle could cripple British tourism

13 June 2020

9:00 AM

13 June 2020

9:00 AM

The government’s battle cry in the fight against the pandemic is ‘Follow the science’. But it is hard to see the science behind the disastrous and potentially crippling 14-day quarantine rule which came into effect on Monday — or, rather, failed to come into effect in any meaningful sense of the word.

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Mark Palmer is the Daily Mail’s travel editor.

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