Seven more countries have joined the green list from today – and France has left the ‘amber plus’ list, under widespread changes to the UK’s traffic light system for travel.

Ministers announced on Wednesday that fully vaccinated travellers from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland returning from France no longer need to quarantine and ditched plans for a “watchlist” of amber countries such as Spain.

India, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are moving from red to amber, whilst Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Romania and Norway are going green.

Those arriving from green list countries do not need to quarantine regardless of vaccination status.

The move is likely to partially revive the struggling tourism sector but will raise questions about whether the government is being complacent about the spread of the virus.

It will also end a tense diplomatic situation over the additional quarantine measures for France, to which senior politicians in Paris had vociferously objected.