Britons travelling to Portugal and Italy react to prospect of quarantine measures in UK

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The UK's holiday "green list" remains as it is – for arrivals to England – following the Government's weekly review of its controversial quarantine policy.

However, Portugal has looked at particular risk of quarantine as infection rates spiked in the country. As a result, both Scotland and Wales have added Portugal to their quarantine lists, but quarantine is not yet imposed on travellers arriving in England.

This week the English, Welsh and Scottish quarantine policies have split. Scotland has imposed a quarantine on Greece, while Wales has placed a number of Greek islands on its ‘red list’. England, however, retains its travel corridor with the country.

The situation intensified yesterday, when Scotland and Wales moved to impose a quarantine on mainland Portugal, shortly after Grant Shapps announced Portugal would keep its travel corridor with England.

Mr Shapps admitted that the difference in quarantine policies is “confusing”, as Heathrow’s CEO John Holland-Kaye spoke out to denounce the Government U-turns and disparate policies as a “quarantine roulette”.

Acknowledging that disparities in the UK's quarantine policies are baffling  holidaymakers, Mr Shapps also stressed there was little he could do for desperate Welsh and Scottish travellers, who have been left with the challenge of getting home before the quarantine rules come into force.

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