THE traffic light system for international travel during the coronavirus pandemic is confusing to the point of being dangerous, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said today.

A risk-based system with red, amber and green ratings for countries around the world determines the quarantine and coronavirus testing requirements people face when returning to Britain.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Ms Nandy said: “We’ve currently got countries on the amber list which the government is basically urging people not to go to, but allowing people to go to with very lax quarantine requirements when they come back.

“We think the amber list should be scrapped. We think it’s pointless. We think it’s confusing and that confusion is actually dangerous at the moment.

“It risks unravelling all of the progress that we’ve made.”

She said the government must make it clear that travelling overseas in general is currently “the wrong thing to do.”