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The other thing that has been pursuing Grant Shapps in questioning on the airwaves this morning has been the overnight front page story from The Sun which claims that during the course of the pandemic, the UK’s health secretary Matt Hancock has been involved in a relationship at work.

Ooooof Grant Shapps struggling to explain why Matt Hancock shouldn’t resign over his affair. “Eeerrrr, ooooohhh, erm it looks like it happened after the unlock stage.” Eventually says he does have confidence in the health Secretary #timesradio

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The other key thing that Grant Shapps, the UK’s transport minister, discussed on Sky News this morning was the touted idea that people who have had two vaccine shots may be permitted to travel to amber list countries more easily. He said:

We’ve met with the scientists and we’ve discussed this and we think that later in the summer, if you’ve had both vaccinations, then we may well be able to treat a location which is currently an amber country, as if it were a green country from the point of view of the double fully vaccinated, individuals. So that means you’d be able to come back, take the single test which is what you have with the green list, and not have to quarantine.

We need more information and data on this and there are some difficult issues to resolve as well, with regard to what happens for children, for those who can’t be vaccinated, and of course giving everybody the opportunity to have those vaccinations. I thought it was right to give people an indication and also direction or track that we were seeing and what we think might be possible.

Grant Shapps tells #KayBurley the govt. "thinks later in the summer" Brits who have had both vaccines will be able to return from an amber list countries and not quarantine.

He adds though more information is needed to resolve "difficult issues".

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