(Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)This is the big question councils across the country are asking - because they know they could be next. It’s using the same “Whitehall knows best” approach that we saw on other issues like PPE and testing. Areas like Greater Manchester receive detailed national testing data once a week rather than once a day like the Government. From here on, I want to establish a clear principle with the Government: everything they know about Greater Manchester, we should know and at the same time. That gives me a fighting chance of preventing a local lockdown in Greater Manchester and I am sure that is what the Government wants too.

Source: Daily Mirror July 05, 2020 12:26 UTC