As I am writing this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the air on his way to the US.
A couple of dozen journalists will be on the plane with him. An advance party is already in Washington DC.
Every one of those will be allowed in because the American authorities have granted them a National Interest Exemption. Without it, you cannot enter the US from the UK or the European Union. Period.
But why? Or to put it simply, what possible justification is there for President Joe Biden to keep this travel ban in place?
It’s a blunt instrument that prevents family members from visiting sick relatives, grandparents meeting grandchildren, business-people (unless they have got bloody good connections) from coming into the country to invest. And on and on it goes.
There are any number of big-ticket items for the two leaders to discuss when they get together on Tuesday at the White House – French anger over the submarine deal, the upcoming climate change conference in…
