Coronavirus: UK parties clash over plans to boost testing - BBC News
The government hopes to process millions of daily tests, but is criticised for not meeting demand sooner.
Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling have joined voices to call on the current government to change its policy on aviation during the pandemic.

Mrs May told the House of Commons the aviation sector was important for jobs and Britain's standing around the world - and that it was a "shame" Boris Johnson's government had not moved quickly enough to encourage passengers.

She said that changes to the country's travel corridor policy had led to "uncertainty" and that stopping people flying into the UK would not change the fact "the virus is here, we will continue to have cases of Covid".

Airport testing would "mitigate the risk" of people coming into the UK with coronavirus and the government should support trials at airports.

Mr Grayling told MPs he was speaking out because he felt passionately that the issue must be addressed "urgently".

Testing - initially on a trial basis - "has to be the way forward, this is vitally important for the industry" and that testing would allow the reopening of transatlantic routes to North America.

"We have got to do this, and we have got to do it now," he said.