UK residents may have to offer so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports to get into pubs and grocery stores, a top official said on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said the government had not “ruled out” needing proof of vaccination to get into the shops.
“This is something that is not excluded and it is being considered, but of course you have to make it workable,” Raab told LBC Radio.
“Whether at international, local or local level, you need to know that the document being presented is something you can rely on and that it is an accurate representation of the status of the individual,” he added.
But other MPs on Sunday pushed back the possibility.
Mark Harper, chairman of the Covid Recovery Group, argued that the UK should not “come to a position where we tell people that they can not do things unless they have been vaccinated with Covid.”
“For everyday life, I do not think you want to require people to have a specific medical procedure before they can carry out their daily lives,” he told the station. “That’s not how we do things in Britain.”