Boris Johnson defended his new border policy on Wednesday, saying it was tough, measured and proportional to try to keep new coronavirus variants from entering the UK. The hotel quarantine scheme would be 'among the toughest border regimes in the world,' Johnson told parliament after being asked by the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, why it had taken the government so long to tighten controls when variants had already arrived

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