In future local authorities would have to - ‘immediately’, in Greater Manchester’s case - get around the table with their MPs and hammer out where exactly which parts of their boroughs they want measures to apply to.
That means potentially adding or removing restrictions neighbourhood by neighbourhood; perhaps ward by ward.In partnership, councils and MPs will now need to bring forward ‘a combined proposal on the geography which should be included, that has been developed in conjunction with the local cross-party council leadership and MPs’, said the government on Friday lunchtime, with neighbourhoods seeing lower infection levels ‘expected to be exempt’.That will doubtless be popular with people who live in areas they feel have unfairly.
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