You know you have a state-compliant media when the questions you want to be asked are never asked. Questions that can have only one answer that doesn’t fit government spin are never asked by journalists. Often, as in this story, the wording of government replies to a question is intended to be unclear and couched in terms 99 per cent of even educated Britons are unfamiliar with.

A member of the House of Lords has written, pointing out an anomaly in the British Government’s testing rules for people travelling to the U.K. which he uncovered via a Parliamentary Question to a Home Office minister.

You may be interested in the written Parliamentary Question below. ‘During Covid I have been travelling regularly to Brussels for business meetings. Despite being double vaccinated, every time I return to the U.K., even if I have only been abroad for two days, I must take a PCR test before returning as I am told that the lateral flow test is unsatisfactory.

‘Yet here is HMG giving illegal migrants who almost certainly are unvaccinated no PCR tests at all. Also, HMG is quoting as its source for advice Public Health England, the same people quoted by HMG as advising business people and holidaymakers that lateral flow tests are not a satisfactory safeguard. Next week when the House returns, I will put down some follow-up questions.’ Richard Balfe.

Baroness Williams of Trafford, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2330): The Home Office is following guidance published by Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland and the NHS with regards to Covid testing for migrant arrivals.

All migrants are tested on arrival with a lateral flow test (proven unreliable and NOT a PCR test and allocated to an approved quarantine site.

Due to the ‘small possibility’ of false positives associated with lateral flow tests, any individual who receives a positive result at a residential short-term holding facility in England or an Immigration Removal Centre will be offered a PRC test to confirm the result.

We do not hold information regarding the percentage which have been genomically sequenced as this is the responsibility of Public Health England. The term genomically is jargon for PCR tested which is fobbed off as ‘the responsibility of Public Health England). So, to remove any confusion even those migrants who are apprehended are not PCR tested. Source