publication of Public Health England’s latest ‘R’ number analysis for the North West - which now estimates that value to be over 1 - that saw the gloves come off.
Amid huge public interest in the new estimate locally, Andy Burnham and Liverpool’s Steve Rotheram moved swiftly to organise a press conference for Sunday morning, cannily attracting an array of national broadcasters just after the health secretary’s weekend media round.To some extent, it was an opportunity to say ‘I told you so’ to ministers, however much they politely insisted that was not the case.
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