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Aug 2021
22m 22s

Travel Tweaks (with Peter Bone MP)

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Conservative MP Peter Bone says the constantly changing government travel rules are too complicated and unnecessary. Bone also tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Yuan Potts that there have always been donors clubs and nobody has suggested that they have anything to do with sleaze.

Bloomberg Intelligence's senior pharmaceutical analyst Sam Fazeli says the Johnson government's traffic light travel system is mind-boggling and constant tweaks to the rules are pointless.

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