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A CRUISE ship carrying some 900 passengers — most doublejabbed and all having been tested before departure — was not allowed to call into Scotland this week on instructions from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

And yet the same First Minister is allowing 6,000 people into the fan zone at Glasgow Green to watch Scotland play the Czech Republic on Monday, without them having to show proof of a negative test or a jab.

Meanwhile, almost 23,000 will gather at Wembley tomorrow for England’s opening game against Croatia — while still only 30 can attend a wedding.

‘Sounds crazy to me,’ is how President Joe I-don’t-want-togo-home Biden might put it in that languid drawl we may just come to cherish as much as we did Ronald Reagan’s off-the-cuff charm four decades ago.

It is crazy — but what better way to seal the special relationship than by announcing at the G7 summit that travel between the UK and the U.S. can resume following the success of our vaccine roll-outs?

What a message that would send about rebooting the worldwide economy. Boris seems keen on the notion of Global Britain and yet, as Theresa May (denied her usual walking holiday in Switzerland, pictured) argued this week, despite the fact more than 50 per cent of the country has been vaccinated, we’re more restricted on travel than we were last summer. Global Britain cowers in fear of going global.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has gone all quiet on us. Perhaps, as reported, he and Health Secretary Matt Hancock did row about which countries should be on the green list — and Shapps came off worst.

Presumably the Global Travel Task Force has been told to disband until the Government shakes off the ‘doomsters and gloomsters’. Returning to normal on June 21 carries risks, but stopping double-vaccinated people taking a holiday on a Greek island with minimal infection rates puts the doomsters in sole charge.