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Common Sense Or Coercion?: Vaccine Passport Special


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One of the most controversial approaches the government is lining up is the introduction of vaccine passports - proof of vaccination to get entry to nightclubs and perhaps pubs and bars from September.
Tom Sasse, associate director at the Institute for Government, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing there are challenges about the way in which this might work and the use of the data needed.
Simon Kolstoe, senior lecturer and university ethics advisor at the University of Portsmouth, joins to discuss the clash between the safety of society and individual rights, and Peter Marks, CEO of REKOM UK, which owns 42 nightclubs says the passports idea might put off customers in an industry already badly hit by previous lockdowns.
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