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The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been caught up in his department’s rule change while on holiday in Spain.

The minister travelled to the country with his family on Saturday just hours before his Department for Transport ruled that travellers returning to the UK from Spain would have to quarantine for 14 days.

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