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Labour leader Keir Starmer said Monday he'd be open to the prospect of government-enforced vaccine passports at large events, but cautioned against their use 'on an every day basis.'
Sir Keir added that vaccines alone are 'not enough' to prevent the spread of Covid at sporting events and other large gatherings and should be accompanied by negative coronavirus tests.
‘I will look carefully at what the government puts forward,' Mr Starmer said after last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson said proof of double vaccination would be a ‘condition of entry' beginning in September for nightclubs and other 'crowded venues.'
'I want to be pragmatic about this, make sure that sports and all sectors are opened as quickly as possible,' Starmer told Nick Ferrari on LBC radio. 'I think that passports on their own are not enough because we know sadly you can be doubled jabbed and get the variant, so it’s got to be passports plus testing.'
Keir Starmer expressed more openness to vaccine passports Monday than he had in March.
Speculation arose last week that Labour
