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Protocols for guests due to attend City dinner include wearing masks and scanning QR codes
Business leaders are pulling out of a high-profile banquet at Mansion House in the City on Tuesday in protest at "overzealous" Covid protocols imposed on guests a day after "Freedom Day".
Two hundred guests are expected in Mansion House's Egyptian Hall for a dinner organised by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
However, some are boycotting the event in protest at the scale of checks required by the Livery company to gain access to the banquet.
Guidance sent to guests in advance asks them to scan QR codes, wear...