that that entirely defeats the point now this was an issue that was raised today in the home affairs select committee where the chief executive of the airport operators association also wanted to see the evidence of the usefulness of who and why people are exempt from this policy of course and then i was not going to fly a flight if they were not to hold who are exempt will. you come in here so you know and that's why we're concerned about the way that this will operate you may simply. shut down already know. now unsurprisingly there has been some criticisms about the timing of this bear in mind over a month ago dominic robb the foreign secretary at the time was standing in for boris johnson who himself was fighting of that 900 he had spoken long and hard about implementing this quarantine policy cut forward to a month and today pretty fertile says it is the right time to do so it's the most effective time to implement this policy but it has led to many a question in the shadow house secretary john ashworth he says the united kingdom putting this policy in place is simply quite frankly too little too

would say it's void and completely defeats the point now the issue was raised today at the home affairs select committee where the chief executive of the airport operators association also wanted to see evidence of how useful it would be to exempt some people from the quarantine of course another line is not going to fly a flight if there are only one or 2 whole who are exempted will. be coming here so you know and that's why we're concerned about the way that this will operate in may simply. already in age. see there's also been quite a lot of criticism when it comes to the timing of it all now the shatter health secretary john ashworth has commented on saying it's almost like it seems this policy has been implemented a little bit too late especially when you consider other countries across the globe have already implemented a quarantine period some in fact at the beginning of that lockdowns their respective lockdowns and that almost seeing eases to that restrictive measures in comparison here in the united kingdom we seem to be at the very beginning of that now the director of health protection of pub

under questioning from the labour mp yvette cooper, who is chair of the house of commons home affairs select committeech individual case and the particular circumstances that my adviser explained, i think whatjenny harris was trying to say was that where there are exceptional difficulties, then people needed to take account of them and other than that, i do not really know what i can add. the reason you are ducking this, the reason you are not giving people a straight answer, is because you are trying to protect dominic cummings. the reason you sent all of your ministers out saying unclear things is because you are trying not to incriminate dominic cummings and you don't want to apologise for him. the problem is, that means you are putting your political concerns ahead of clear public health messages to parents who have coronavirus. with me now is our political correspondent helen catt. you got the impression that the prime minister is desperate to move the conversation on. did he manage to achieve that today? you're right, thatis to achieve that today? you're right, that is certainly what he kept say

actually that was raised before pretty tough to surely announce these policies during the home affairs select committee where the chief executive of airport operators association also wanted to see the evidence behind and why some people will be exempt from this policy of course an airline is not going to fly a flight if there are only one or 2 people who are exempted that will. come in here so you know and that's why we're concerned about the way that this will operate in may simply to lay ground shut down already. now unsurprisingly there has been some criticisms about the timing of all of this just over a month ago dominic roth who was standing in for boris johnson the prime minister who himself was on well with 19 he said that these plans would be put in place a little bit soon and now pretty fertile just that they that this is the most effective time for these policies to be put in place but the shadow health secretary john ashworth he argues that the united kingdom is acting a little bit too late when it comes to quarantining because if you look at other countries and their models they've already