British lawmakers across the political spectrum voiced strong opposition on Wednesday to the government’s plan to introduce vaccine passports. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed it wants to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs by the end of September, which will require members of the public to show proof they have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in order to gain entry to clubs and other large-scale events. Raising an “urgent question” in the House of Commons, Alistair Carmichael, an MP of the opposition Liberal Democrats, said the scheme “opens the door to a major change in the relationship between the citizen and the state.” “The introduction of vaccine passports will have enormous practical implications for the literally thousands of businesses across the country who will be required to gather and to hold our data,” he said. “Never before in peacetime has the government of this country controlled in …