Between March 23, 2020, when the first national lockdown was imposed, and April 2021, more than 12.8m people entered the country by air. Some 1.2m passengers entered the UK in July, 3.1m in August and nearly 2.8m in September, before arrivals dwindled again. But the statistics include the first few weeks of March 2020 before international travel ground to a halt for months. “It’s beyond reckless that so many people arrived during the third lockdown when international travel was supposed to be tightly restricted. The Conservatives’ failure to protect our borders against Covid has been a deadly disaster.

Source: Daily Mirror May 27, 2021 17:52 UTC