![]() ![]() Hilarious? Tell that to the people whose lives were ruined by this policy. ![]() Hancock replied that 149 people ‘are now in Quarantine Hotels due to their own free will!’. He later asked Hancock: ‘Any idea how many people we locked up in hotels yesterday?’ Locked up in hotels. ![]() ‘I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class and into a premier inn shoe box’, chortled Mr Case. To Hancock and his civil-service pals it was all a big laugh. A total of 200,000 British citizens and residents endured this painful, expensive quarantine. A policy had just been introduced stipulating that any Briton returning from a ‘red list’ country – which eventually included 50 states around the world, including India and vast swathes of Africa – would have to quarantine in a hotel at a cost of £1,750 per person, later rising to £2,285. In February 2021 he had a breezy virtual chat with Matt Hancock, the then health secretary. It was Simon Case, the UK’s top mandarin. ![]()
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