Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll be discussing

the route about quarantine and the government's decision to put everyone arriving in

the UK into isolation for 14 days, but there's been a big backlash from Tory MPs, the

industry and some ministers. But on the plus side, we've got a sign of how pubs and

restaurants are going to look when they reopen when the lockdown is further eased later this summer.

But there's also been some chaos in Boris Johnson's government, with far school scenes of

MPs queuing for 45 minutes to vote for some very depressing statistics about how

coronavirus is affecting the BME population and general misuse of statistics

by Matt Hancock's Health Secretary and is also the UK significant offer to the population of

Hong Kong to come to the UK to live and work and possibly become citizens.

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent Laura Hughes.

Thank you all for joining.

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The main political story in Westminster this week has been about quarantine.

This is a policy that's been rumored for many weeks now as part of the government's efforts to thwart the spread of coronavirus.

From June the 8th, all arrivals into the UK will have to go into isolation for 14 days,

with hefty fines and penalties if they break the rules.

The government has strong public support for this, but there's been a pretty clear backlash

for people questioning why the UK is doing this now and is it actually going to help?

So Jim Picard if you can just take us through this quarantine idea when the coronavirus crisis began

lots of other countries had quarantines in place.

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