PM defends border restrictions as Brazilian strain detected in UK

Published on March 1, 2021 - Duration: 01:49s

PM defends border restrictions as Brazilian strain detected in UK

Boris Johnson has defended the Government’s measures to prevent new variants being imported into the country, despite the detection of cases of the Brazilian strain of coronavirus.The Prime Minister told reporters: “We have got one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the world for stopping people coming in to this country who may have variants of concern.”


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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
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