Ministers and senior officials joked about locking up travellers arriving in the UK in quarantine hotels during the Covid pandemic, according to leaked messages revealed on Thursday.
In one exchange with Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in February 2021, the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock said they were "giving big families all the big suites and putting pop stars in the box rooms".
Mr Case replied: "I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class into a Premier Inn shoe box."
