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Boris will need Labour support for vaccine passports

9 April 2021

2:50 AM

9 April 2021

2:50 AM

No prime minister wants to be dependent on the opposition to get the government’s business through the House of Commons. But this is the position Boris Johnson will likely find himself in when it comes to ‘Covid status certificates’, I argue in the magazine this week.

More than 40 Tory MPs have already signed a pledge to oppose vaccine passports, and the government’s majority is 80.

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