Grant Shapps will have to self-isolate on return from Spain and people had thoughts – our 9 favourites

The Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps – who once used fake names to run and promote an internet business – opted to go against his own government’s advice by forgoing the joys of a ‘staycation’ for a holiday in Spain.

Embarrassingly, while he was still there, Spain experienced a surge in coronavirus cases, causing the *stifles sniggers* Department of Transport to insist on travellers returning from there to the UK placing themselves into quarantine for 14 days.

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Transport Sec Grant Shapps is on holiday in Spain. He will, therefore, have to quarantine for 14 days when he gets home.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 25, 2020

Needless to say, the awkward incident did not get a free pass from Twitter.

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BREAKING: Grant Shapps will *not* have to self quarantine on his return from Spain if he can find a travel corridor and make an air bridge to Barnard Castle

— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@davemacladd) July 25, 2020

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I’m sure I’m the millionth person to ask, but if Grant Shapps is quarantined will Michael Green & Sebastian Fox still be turning up for work?

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) July 26, 2020

3.

OK, I admit it – the only reason we introduced the 14 day #Quarantine for people returning from Spain is because that's where Grant Shapps is currently on holiday.

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) July 25, 2020

4.

LATEST: People who break mask rules in shops will be forced to quarantine with Grant Shapps for 2 weeks, Government say.

— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) July 26, 2020

5.

Grant Shapps might not even be in Spain. He might be using one of his other passports. He is, after all, the Jason Bourne of toss.

— Russ (@RussInCheshire) July 26, 2020

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Grant Shapps is currently in Spain but, of course, he won't have to quarantine when he comes back because by the time he gets here, Spain will actually be redesignated a large restaurant and as long as he's sitting down, he won't need to wear a mask. Have I understood this right?

— Bernard Castle (@bernardTcastle) July 25, 2020

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Minister Grant Shapps can presumably avoid having to quarantine on return from Spain by telling us, in PM’s Garden, that he was only in Spain:
To get childcare, which he later found he didn’t need &
To test his eye sight on his wife’s birthday &
The rules just don’t apply to him

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) July 25, 2020

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this really is the banter administration pic.twitter.com/RU3xrAORVb

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 25, 2020

9.

I’ve got a joke about the transport secretary but you’ll have to wait 14 days to hear it.

— Jonathan Bartley (@jon_bartley) July 26, 2020

James Felton painted a very different picture.

You know when you say “I could use another holiday to recover from that holiday” and then you change the quarantine law to enforce that https://t.co/j8eojt6mN6

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) July 25, 2020

It was probably Michael Green’s idea.

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