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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Forsyth.

So overnight the Labour Party seems to have taken a position on vaccine passports.

Coming out against it is some of the briefing that we're hearing.

Katie, can you tell us about this position?

Yes. So we had yesterday Boris Johnson's press conference where he suggested, well, not quite, I suppose

literally, that vaccine passports were coming, but ultimately the government review in writing

did confirm that this is the direction of travel for the government. And the big question is,

although Boris Johnson wouldn't commit to a commons vote on vaccine passports in the press conference,

their expectation is that if this is put through, it will come to a vote.

So can the government get it through the commons?

And key to this is Kirstama.

Now, we had a Labour saw suggesting that as the current plan stands,

Labour was unlikely to back the idea of vaccine passports.

This appeared to be a fairly clear-cut position when you first heard this.

But I think as tends to be the case with labour positions, a little bit of time goes on and it starts to get a bit more complicated.

And quite soon after that statement came out, you had Jonathan Ashworth, the Shida Health Secretary, doing the morning media round.

And he was criticising the vaccine passport plans, but he was criticising government confusion.

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