Leicester's Mayor says the government still hasn’t confirmed the boundary for the city’s local lockdown. Sir Peter Soulsby told Sky News it had been “incredibly difficult” getting data out of the government.
The government is expected to release details of the lockdown rules in a new law later this morning. Sir Peter said it would be "quite a challenge" to enforce the local lockdown without knowing where it begins and ends.
He said: “We were talking with the Chief Constable yesterday about the role he and his officers will have to play in this, because obviously the council doesn't have the resources to do it." And he confirmed there would be no police road blocks in the city, because "clearly that is wholly impractical." But he said he had
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