Covid restriction critics

What the Conservative rebels said

Why should people listen to the Prime Minister’s instructions to follow the rules when people inside No10 Downing Street don’t do so?

Mark Harper

It is vital that the maximum number of Conservative MPS vote against Plan B, whatever our useless Opposition do.

Steve Baker (right)

Where is the evidence that vaccine passports actually work?... Austria, Greece and the German states that have used them are in the same position, with more cases. Vaccinated people can still catch and transmit the disease and there is a sizeable chance that passports will introduce a false sense of security.

David Davis (below right)

[Sajid Javid] used expressions such as ‘could’, ‘can’, ‘potential’, ‘suggests’ and ‘might’. Does that not show that there is no justification for these restrictions upon liberty?

Sir Christopher Chope

Our freedoms are being taken away again on the basis of what a variant might, not does, do. These variants will continue to hit us for years to come and this country cannot go on reacting to them in the way in which we are doing.

Richard Drax

We seem to be on a slippery slope towards lockdown based on precisely no real data, which is a worry. It seems to be the precautionary principle gone completely mad.

Craig Mackinlay

I don’t support Plan B. Vaccine passports are divisive and discriminatory. They do not stop the spread of Covid. Plan B will cost jobs in many sectors, including hospitality. Working from home won’t help our social or economic recovery. I won’t vote for these measures.

Simon Jupp

[It is the] latest in a long line of arbitrary, unnecessary, socialist measures... I am sorry that the Secretary of State seems to have gone native so fast… Will he give me any reason at all why I should not tell my constituents to treat these new rules in exactly the same way that No10 Downing Street treated last year’s rules?

Philip Davies

I cannot vote for restrictions ‘just in case’ at a time when hospitalisations and deaths are falling. I don’t believe the evidence supports Plan B and I will not vote for it.

Ben Bradley (bottom left)

The evidence we have been presented with does not justify further restrictions on liberties.

Dehenna Davison (top)