By Alex Glenn • Published: 08 Aug 2021 • 12:33
Dominic Raab met Princess Anne ‘two days after skipping quarantine’ Credit: Twitter
Dominic Raab met with senior royal Princess Anne only ‘two days after skipping quarantine’ when he returned from France while strict quarantine rules were still in place.
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has come under criticism after he met Princess Anne at a maskless reception at the AstraZeneca plant in Oxford. Raab had travelled to Paris and met with world leaders only days after quarantine rules had been toughened.
According to the Daily Mirror, Raab avoided having to spend 10 days self-isolating at home by using his ministerial exemption. According to the paper after Raab returned from France in late July he met with Princess Anne and was even maskless.
At that point in time people who had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and travelled to the UK from France still had to self-isolate over fears of the beta variant’s dominance, in areas of France. This was something that Raab had endorsed publicly too.
A Foreign Office spokesperson spoke to the Mirror and said: ‘He’s the foreign secretary. It’s his job to represent the UK abroad.’
Anneliese Dodds, the Labour party chair has hit back and claimed that it is ‘one rule for them and another for everyone else,’ and commented on the traffic light travel system.
“No wonder the Tories don’t understand the chaos they’ve created when ministers don’t apply the rules to themselves,” said Dodds.
‘Senior Conservatives are taking the public for fools. It’s always one rule for them and another for everyone else.’
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