As the battle over controlling Coronavirus continues between local Northern leaders and Westminster continues unabated, the leader of Manchester Council Sir Richard Leese has once again entered the fray
Interviewed on Times Radio he said that after viewing the data on Friday evening supplied by the Government was not related to the City, “rural Cumbria being lumped with Merseyside and Greater Manchester, that’s not appropriate data to be looking at.”
As with statement on Friday night, the council leader said the data showed very little evidence of transmission of the virus in pubs and suggested closing them just displaced the problem to gatherings outside and unregulated settings.
Leese said that he would not be happy seeing Manchester put into a Tier 3 saying that it would not tackle the spread of the virus and would be “absolutely disastrous” for the local economy.
He said “ I think we believe with good cause, because of the data and knowledge of what is going on, on the ground we have far more finely grained data than government does and we are in a far, far better position to lead in the containment process.”
