Pubs could require people to provide a vaccine certificate, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told MPs, saying it “may be up to individual publicans”.
A review underway is currently looking into whether people should need to prove they have been vaccinated, as lockdown measures ease around the United Kingdom.
UNN understands the option of people to show a negative test was also being looked at, however, Conservative MP Steve Baker said it was a “ghastly trap” and unfairly penalised those advised not to have a vaccine.
The idea of asking pub-goers to show a vaccine certificate was raised at Wednesday’s House of Commons Liaison Committee hearing, when Conservative William Wragg asked Mr Johnson if vaccine certificates were “compatible with a free society such as ours”.
Prime Minister Johnson said the concept “should not be totally alien to us” as doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs.
Mr Wragg then asked, what about “ordinary citizens going to the pub?” and Prime Minister Johnson replied: “That’s the kind of thing that may be up to individual publicans.”
When asked further about the idea Mr Johnson said: “I find myself in this long national conversation thinking very deeply about it” adding that the public “want me as Prime Minister to take all the action I can to protect them”.
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