According to some reports, the former attorney general used a loophole within lockdown laws in order to fly to Caribbean to escape from bans on foreign travel in April.
Sir Geoffrey Cox refuses to reveal exactly when he arrived in British Virgin Islands for his second, lucrative job.
According to local reports, he arrived three weeks prior to the lifting of the British ban on international travel. There were limited exemptions for those deemed to be on ‘essential’ business.
Sun searching: Sir Geoffrey is in Devon for sun in May after having been in the British Virgin Islands.
Court documents state Sir Geoffrey was at an inquiry in the island’s capital Tortola on May 13 and May 18. The following day, he uploaded pictures to Twitter and opened a new social hub at Hartford Bridge Park.
At the time, the British Virgin Islands were on the UK’s amber travel list, meaning anyone returning had to isolate at home for ten days. But a Whitehall source pointed out that the Government had introduced a ‘test and release’ scheme.
This saw very limited exemptions for ‘crown servants’, foreign diplomats and essential workers to avoid quarantine after as little as five days if they had a negative PCR test.
Yesterday’s questions about Sir Geoffrey’s travels and the quarantine arrangements that he used were not answered by him.
Court documents state Sir Geoffrey was at an inquiry in the island’s capital Tortola on May 13 and May 18 (file image)
His second trip to the Caribbean was made the next month. In an investigation ordered by the British Foreign Office, he is currently advising the BVI government, which has been accused of being a tax haven. Reporters were told this week that Sir Geoffrey is ‘abroad’.
His wife Jeanie arrived at their Devon home alone in her black Land Rover but refused to answer the Daily Mail’s enquiry about the whereabouts of her husband. She said: ‘No. You have nothing to tell me. I don’t care what you want to know.’