{"id":375431,"date":"2021-04-02T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=375431"},"modified":"2021-04-02T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:30:48","slug":"opposition-builds-scores-of-british-lawmakers-across-political-spectrum-unite-against-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-builds-scores-of-british-lawmakers-across-political-spectrum-unite-against-vaccine-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Builds: Scores Of British Lawmakers Across Political Spectrum Unite Against Vaccine Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopposition-builds-scores-of-british-lawmakers-across-political-spectrum-unite-against-vaccine-passports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=375431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-266.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Widespread opposition to coronavirus vaccine passports is building in the United Kingdom as the government considers introducing them to help bring life back to normal from pandemic lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 British lawmakers and officials have already signaled they oppose the vaccine passports in a signed statement, calling them \u201cdivisive and discriminatory.\u201d Those that signed the statement, which also included businesses and NGOs, represented the far-left Labour Party, the center-left Liberal Democrats, and the center-right Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe oppose the divisive and discriminatory use of COVID status certification to deny individuals access to general services, businesses or jobs,\u201d the full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbrotherwatch.org.uk\/2021\/04\/70-mps-launch-cross-party-campaign-against-covid-passes\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>The government is reviewing the idea of asking people to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to access crowded spaces such as pubs or sports events, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson having already said that a certificate is likely to be needed for international travel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Saturday that trials of COVID passports would begin within weeks during pilots at major sports events and possibly a music awards ceremony in the next two months to assess their impact.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy instinct is that, as the vaccine is rolled out, as the number of hospital admissions and deaths go down, there will be a British sense that we don\u2019t actually want to go down this road,\u201d Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/covid-19-british-instinct-against-225700729.html\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we start to get this virus properly under control we should start getting our freedoms back, vaccine passports \u2013 essentially Covid ID cards \u2013 take us in the other direction,\u201d Ed Davey MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, said in a statement.&nbsp;\u201cLiberal Democrats have always been the party for civil liberties, we were against ID cards when Blair tried to introduce them and we are against them now. I\u2019m pleased Big Brother Watch is helping drive forward a growing consensus against Covid ID cards in our politics. Now I hope we can start to turn the tide on the creeping authoritarianism we are seeing from Number 10 across a broad range of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Graham Brady MP of the Conservative Party said that the vaccine passports would be \u201cdivisive and discriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith high levels of vaccination protecting the vulnerable and making transmission less likely, we should aim to return to normal life, not to put permanent restrictions in place,\u201d Brady continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur common goal is to emerge from lockdown \u2013 healthy, safe and free,\u201d Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said. \u201cBut we won\u2019t arrive at freedom through exclusion. Covid passes would be the first attempt at segregation in Britain for many decades, dividing communities without reducing the risks. We are in real danger of becoming a check-point society where anyone from bouncers to bosses could demand to see our papers. We cannot let this Government create a two-tier nation of division, discrimination and injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread opposition to coronavirus vaccine passports is building in the United Kingdom as the government considers introducing them to help bring life back to normal from pandemic lockdowns.More than 70 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311558,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-266.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Opposition Builds: Scores Of British Lawmakers Across Political Spectrum Unite Against Vaccine Passports","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-266.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Opposition Builds: Scores Of British Lawmakers Across Political Spectrum Unite Against Vaccine Passports","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}