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UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has rebuffed a letter from the First Minister calling for travel restrictions from parts of England experiencing high numbers of Covid-19 cases into Wales.
There have been growing concerns that while all of north-east Wales is in a local lockdown – where travel outside council areas without a good reason is prohibited – tourists from parts of England themselves under local lockdown can travel to and through these areas.
The Prime Minister said he didn’t want to impose travel restrictions within the UK “as we are all one country” but appealed to common sense, adding that: “I urge people who are coming from areas where there is a high rate of infectivity not to thoughtlessly go and risk spreading it.”
Elsewhere, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senedd, Paul Davies MS (Con, Preseli Pembs.). said that if the Conservatives won power at the next Senedd election they “wouldn’t tread on Westminster’s turf” by attempting to influence policy in areas which aren’t devolved – including international affairs and criminal justice.
He also defended the controversial Internal Market Bill, saying: “When you ask Welsh Government ministers to wipe away the faux tears and list the powers they are losing, they cannot name one power they are losing….Because nothing is being taken away from Wales.”
