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Coronavirus restrictions mean Britons may not be able to visit the European continent after January 1, when the Brexit transition period ends.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has admitted that travel from Britain to the European continent could be disrupted as a result of coronavirus restrictions once the Brexit transition period ends.
The UK will no longer be a party to the European Union’s free movement rules after January 1.
Only a small number of countries with low rates of COVID are exempt from the rules that prohibit non-essential visitors from outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA).
These include Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, but a spokesman for the EU commission said last week that there were no plans to extend that to the UK. “This is a decision for the council to make,” he said.
Now Mr Raab has told BBC Radio 4’s Today show: “COVID restrictions will depend on the combination of what the EU decides, but also the member states.
“We already have challenges with that and we have put our own restrictions.”
He acknowledged that the coronavirus “is still a live problem and we must make sure we have control of it.”
“I’m afraid that the travel restriction will inevitably be something that will be kept under review.”
When asked if that would mean that it would be difficult for the British to go to the European continent, he said: “It all depends on the prevalence of the virus in those continental European countries.”
