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

I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Jones Forsy. So today, the government is embroiled

in a diplomatic row with France.

Katie, what's the latest in this sort of whackamore approach to holiday lists?

So we have a situation where the government is generally easing rules when it comes to travel,

particularly for the double vaccinated. So those who are double vaccinated when they go to

an ambulance country, no longer need to quarantine on return if they are double jabbed. Now,

that clearly opens up lots of travel options, particularly if you think about the number of people

going up to age ranks who have now achieved that. But where there is a diplomatic row brewing

is over France because France has recently added to a new category of Amber Plus, which I think

was frustrating, not just for those who had booked holidays to France who were in France at the time,

but also to the travel industry because obviously they're trying to play by a set of rules

that you think you

understand and then all of a sudden a new category exists and Amber Plus means that evening

you have to isolate on return. Now I think partly because other countries are now facing a more

relaxed prospect for UK travellers, so France was disadvantaged,

but also because Dominic Raab made comments in which this all comes down to the better

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