The tiering system that led to an explosive stand-off between Greater Manchester and the government last October had been ‘bodged together’ on the fly with no financial support plan in place, the Prime Minister’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has said, while Boris Johnson ‘constantly changed his mind’ about what places should be subject to what measures.
As part of incendiary evidence to a parliamentary inquiry on the pandemic, Mr Cummings said the tiering system - autumn’s version of the ‘local lockdowns’ first announced by government earlier in the year - had been ‘chaotic’ and ‘full of holes’, although he said the broad concept had been right.
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