UK Covid live news: Labour hardens opposition to 'digital ID card' Covid passports plan

Latest updates: Labour scepticism over Covid-status certificates intensifies, meaning government may lose vote in Commons on issue

10.10am BST

In its interim report from the global travel taskforce (pdf) published last night, the government confirmed it would create a “green” category of countries, and that people arriving from these places would not be subject to hotel quarantine (which applies to arrivals from “red” countries) or quarantine at home (the rule for what are now dubbed “amber” countries). But arrivals from “green” countries will still be subject to pre-departure and post-arrival tests.

Johan Lundgren, chief executive of easyJet, told BBC Breakfast this morning that this meant international travel would only reopen “for people who can afford it”.

I don’t think that is fair, I don’t think it’s right, and I don’t think it is necessarily established from a medical and scientific point of view that is the right thing to do.

If they choose, however, to go down that route to have the tests in place, it should be the same type of testing, the lateral flow testing, which is much cheaper, more accessible, that is being used to open up the domestic sector as an example.

9.47am BST

Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccine deployment minister, was doing the government spokesman shift on the news programmes this morning. Here are the main points he made.

It will be in deployment around the third week of April in the NHS and we will get more volume in May as well,

And of course more volume of Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca and we have got other vaccines. We have got the Janssen - Johnson and Johnson - vaccine coming through as well.

Both vaccines [AstraZeneca’s and Pfizer’s] have saved something like 6,300 lives between December and the end of February, so it’s important to continue to follow what the clinicians, the scientists, the regulators tell us. And we will absolutely do exactly as they say.

The prime minister made it very clear, if we do get to that place, then of course we will go to parliament for a vote.

We are taking too many fences at once, first we need to work out what exactly the proposal might be, but certainly if there is something to put to parliament I am certain we will do that.