So you have just come back from a holiday in the sun or a business trip and arrive at Heathrow thinking with a little luck you will be heading home in an hour. Instead anywhere up to six hours later you are still waiting at border control. How mad would be? How angry? Furious enough to get involved in a fight? Highly possible. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now That is the picture painted Heathrow’s Chris Garton with the fancy title of chief solutions officer. And its all down to covid. Right now between 10,000 and 15,000 people a day are coming through Heathrow but that is only 15% of normal traffic. What will that number after May 17. The queues at border control are massive because of strict paperwork checks which include passenger locator forms and proof of a negative covid test.
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now This is simply not acceptable and I urge Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take a good long read of The Times front page this morning and start doing something about it. His government needs to hire literally thousands more at airports across the country so that we can all go on foreign holidays to save our sanity and save the tourist business which has suffered so much from covid. If Boris doesn’t take action pronto it will turn out to be his obituary. He is receiving a vaccine bounce right now but that will disappear if you have spend longer in the airport than the time you and your family were on vacation. READ MORE: Click here to read more articles from Kelvin MacKenzie
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