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Hundreds of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh were rushing back to major cities Saturday after the government said export factories
Factories, offices, transport and shops had been ordered to close from 23 July to 5 August as daily coronavirus infections and deaths hit record levels.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, has said that plans to impose vaccine passports for domestic use was “unworkable, expensive and divisive”, as he called for the recall of parliament to debate changes to the NHS app which allows it to be used as proof of vaccine status.
Describing the plan as a “Covid ID card”, Davey said imposing vaccine passports would “be a real attack on people’s freedoms” and a “serious undermining of civil liberties.”
Because the government told us they weren’t going to do this.
We’ve all agreed that for international travel you’ll need to have Covid options but domestically, sort of Covid ID cards, the Liberal Democrats have led the campaign against them, we’ve seen MPs in other parties share our views that this would be a real attack on people’s freedoms and particularly hit businesses and young people - it is unworkable, it is expensive and it is divisive.
Frankly, this government has given everybody many reasons, time and time again not to trust them.
I do not trust Boris Johnson, I do not trust his ministers and we will watch them like hawks, and we will come down on them - that’s what we are doing now. They are trying to do this in the recess when parliament isn’t sitting - it is a disgrace.
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