Before Brexit, groups of children could travel using identity cards under the List of Travellers scheme.
Now, every child must have a passport, and children with non-EU passports – including refugees – also need a £95 visa. Schools are opting to go to Ireland or Malta for English language trips, or not travelling at all.
Oh noes, 40,000 jobs at risk (according to the increasingly-hysterical 'Guardian'). Whatever shall we do?
Kurt Janson, the director of the Tourism Alliance, said the passport requirement was having “a devastating impact on a large number of small businesses and local communities”.
“The collapse in the school group market is unnecessary as schoolchildren present no security risk, will not disappear into the black economy and start driving minicabs....”
Well, I dunno, I guess it depends on the 'children', doesn't it?
