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Grant Shapps: You won't legally need two jabs to return to the office

Telegraph, 30 Jul 2021
The Government will not pass legislation forcing people to be fully vaccinated before returning to work, Grant Shapps has said.

Yesterday Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, put the cat amongst the pigeons when he suggested jabs for jobs policies adopted by Netflix, Google and Facebook were "smart", adding: "Whether or not there should be hard and fast legal rules, we would need to look at that carefully."

His comments sparked concern among Conservative backbenchers, with Steve Baker, the Tory MP and deputy chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, warning "the Government is now encouraging discrimination in relation to vaccinations".

Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/30/boris-johnson-test-trace-quarantine-vaccine-work-home/

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