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Johnson Warns U.K. May Need Tougher Border Rules ‘Very Soon’
- Prime minister says risk of new checks damaging trade flows
- Country has brought Covid levels down with vaccines, lockdown
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The U.K. may need tougher border measures “very soon” to prevent the arrival of coronavirus variants from continental Europe that risk undermining the country’s vaccine roll-out, Boris Johnson said.
Ministers need to balance any decision to impose tighter restrictions -- including potential Covid-19 checks on haulers coming from France -- “against the very serious disruption that is entailed by curtailing cross-Channel trade,” the British prime minister told Parliament on Wednesday.