Wigan MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy has said that Labour Party will look into presenting alternative support packages for those areas facing tightened restrictions rather than voting down government coronavirus measures.

Labour could vote against the Conservative government’s measures to control the coronavirus but fears that would further hurt places in northern England where COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly, she  told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show.

Instead, Nandy said, Labour would look at presenting an alternative financial package for those affected by any new restrictions, criticising the government’s measures as offering too little.

Nandy also described the anger in the North of England

“It’s really hard to explain how angry people are in the north of England … I haven’t felt anger like this toward the government since I was growing up here in the 1980s … If they don’t do something quickly, they’re not just going to lose control of the virus, they’re going to lose trust in what people are being told.”

 

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