According to the government quarantine policy, that came into force on 8 June, nearly all international arrivals at UK ports must quarantine for 14 days. Elsewhere we argued that the quarantine policy is irrational, unreasonable, disproportionate and therefore illegal. Here we argue that the policy was introduced mainly because of public opinion – and that public opinion in this case is an irrelevant consideration, one that should not have been taken into account by government.
Was public opinion taken into account in this case?
We have two reasons to believe that the government took public opinion into account when it decided the quarantine policy – and presumably also accorded it significant weight. First, an opinion poll showed that 63% of the public supported the quarantine policy. Second, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who introduced the policy, openly said that ‘these measures are informed by science, backed…
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