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A Tory backlash is growing against the plans to spare quarantine for thousands of football bigwigs so they can attend Euro 2020 games at Wembley.
Conservative MPs said it was ‘ridiculous’ that VIPs would be allowed to fly to the UK without isolating at the same time as parents are banned from watching school sports days.
As anger grew over the special treatment being arranged for up to 2,500 chiefs from Uefa and Fifa as well as big business sponsors, even a minister admitted some Covid rules looked inconsistent.
A Tory backlash is growing against the plans to spare quarantine for thousands of football bigwigs so they can attend Euro 2020 games at Wembley (pictured, Prince William and Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin at Wembley stadium on June 22)
Conservative MPs said it was ‘ridiculous’ that VIPs would be allowed to fly to the UK without isolating at the same time as parents are banned from watching school sports days (stock image)
And another row was brewing after it was announced that, in addition to 60,000 spectators at Wembley for the Euro semis and final next month, a capacity 140,000 crowd will see the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, with even world champion driver Lewis Hamilton warning it looked ‘premature’.
Anti-lockdown Tory backbencher William Wragg wrote online yesterday: ‘A ridiculous situation where parents can’t watch their children’s school sports days, but 2,000 VIPs can fly over to watch the football with special legal exemptions. Prolonged Covid restrictions are now proving arbitrary and divisive.’
Ex-minister Steve Baker added: ‘One rule for the elite. Another for the rest of us.’
