Vaccine Passports ‘Unworkable, Expensive, Illiberal’: UK Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey delivers his speech to a small audience at the party's online autumn conference in London, on Sept. 19, 2021. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

The UK’s opposition Liberal Democrats stand in “clear and principled” opposition to COVID-19 vaccine passports because they are “unworkable, expensive, and illiberal,” the party’s leader said on Saturday.

Though the UK’s Conservative government has dropped its plan to adopt vaccine passports for nightclubs and crowded events in England, the local administrations in Scotland and Wales have announced they will go ahead with the scheme.