Graham Brady, Altrincham and Sale MO chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, has said that there would be mass revolts in the party against any attempt to extend England’s lockdown beyond December 2.
He has told the Observer newspaper that Some of us voted against lockdown but my sense is that far more would make a stand if a third lockdown were to be contemplated.”
Brady said the way government had produced exaggerated figures at last Saturday’s briefing had caused huge disquiet.
A slide used to justify the lockdown projected daily deaths reaching 1,500 by December more than at the peak of the first wave.
But government officials later acknowledged it should have shown an upper limit of 1,000 daily deaths – in line with the first-wave peak.
