Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, urged the government to withdraw advice not to travel to or from certain English regions where variants are more prevalent. Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccine deployment minister, said the government was coming down hard against the variant first identified in India, and urging people in these regions to be extra cautious, in line with Boris Johnson's statement two weeks ago

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