UK minister seeks to calm row over France Covid travel curbs
by Aubrey Allegretti from on (#5MS3S)
Grant Shapps defends decision to put France on UK's amber-plus list over Beta variant threat
A British cabinet minister has sought to dampen down a growing diplomatic row with France over the imposition of tougher international restrictions on millions of travellers due to the threat of the Beta variant of coronavirus.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, defended the decision to put France on the amber-plus" list, after the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, on Thursday suggested the variant's prevalence on Reunion, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, was partly to blame.
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