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www.spotator.com.com.com.com. Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shopsots, Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James

Forsythe and Issafe and Issaver Hardman. As the government comes under pressure over the risks of the

South African strains spreading in the UK, we have seen today an announcement of a toughening of the

border policy, quarantine hotels that we had heard about for some time we now have the specifics

on, is about what are we looking at in terms of, I suppose, the costs, the rules and the penalties?

Yeah, so quite a headline tough regime, I guess. So people will be forced to stay at their

own cost in quarantine hotels. If they provide false information on their forms about this,

they could face up to 10 years in prison. People who failed to quarantine in a designated hotel

will be fined £10,000. People who arrive and fail to take a test

will be subject to a £1,000 fine and a £2,000 fine if they don't take the second test. So that's the

penalty regime announced by Matt Hancock. It will also cost people over £1,000 to stay in one of

these quarantine hotels. In fact, just under £2,000

for the hotel quarantine. So those are the sort of costs of this regime to people individually.

He also, as you'd expect, in every statement that's made about COVID in the house at the moment,

was asked, when is this going to be over?

And there was a question from Mark Harper, who's chair of the COVID recovery group,

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