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Good Morning. Ministers are being read to announce new restrictions in England, which could force pubs to close in areas with the highest rates of coronavirus, but it is reported that the measures may not go into effect until next week and this alone has fueled anger. that local leaders already feel about how the government is handling this. Nottingham, which now has the fifth highest Covid rate in England, expected further restrictions today. But David mellen, the leader of the Labor council, told the Today show that he now thought they wouldn’t happen until next week.
It seems that we are victims of a change of approach of the government. And so even though we have very high numbers that we have known about since the beginning of the week, we have until next week for the government to introduce what we hope are restrictions in Nottingham.
He also said that this meant there was a danger that people might consider this weekend a party opportunity due to the delay. When asked if he feared residents would have “one last blowout,” he replied:
Absolutely. That is our concern, absolutely. This has happened very quickly. We were hampered by 660 people who were positive without knowing their results for a week due to failure. Obviously, they could have two or three contacts each: lots of people roaming the city, going about their daily lives, not isolating themselves when they should have been if they knew their results and their contacts had been traced.
Yes, there is a chance that this weekend people will think, ‘This could be the last chance before Christmas, so let’s go out and party.’ And we can’t have that.
Mellen is not the only local leader who is furious. Last night, in response to a Times report that Northern England pubs would be forced to close on Monday, Andy Burnham, the Labor mayor of Greater Manchester, said it was “impossible to deal with the government.”
Andy Burnham
(@AndyBurnhamGM)Without discussion. Without consultation.
Millions of lives affected by the Whitehall diktat.
It is proving impossible to deal with this government. https://t.co/1lcRRNvptd
Here is the agenda for the day.
9.30 am: The ONS is to publish reports comparing Covid deaths with flu deaths, looking at Covid and the workforce outside the UK, and the economic impact of the crisis.
10.30 am: Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the Commons, makes a Commons statement on next week’s business.
11am: NHS Test and Trace will publish its latest performance figures.
Around 11.30 am: Parliamentarians initiate a general debate on the government’s plans to reform the planning system. More than 50 MPs must speak, many of whom are unhappy with the proposals.
12:00 h: Downing Street holds its briefing in the lobby.
Politics Live has doubled as the UK’s coronavirus live blog for some time and given the way the Covid crisis overshadows everything, this will continue for the foreseeable future. But we will also cover political stories that do not belong to Covid, and where they seem most important and interesting, they will take precedence.
Here’s our global coronavirus live blog.
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