Altrincham and Sale MP Sir Graham Brady has told the House of Commons that he will vote against the lockdown regulations with “greater conviction” than in any other vote in his 23 years as an MP.

The chairman of the 1922 backbench committee said that the government should be publishing an economic impact assessment and raised the fundamental question: does the government have the right to take these measures?

The thing that troubles me most is that the government is reaching too far into the private and family lives of our constituents.

“I think there is an, unintended perhaps, but an arrogance in assuming the government has the right to … tell people, whether they can visit their elderly parents in a care home, whether it has the right to tell parents they can’t see their children, or their grandchildren, whether it has any right, for heaven’s sake, to tell consenting adults with who they are allowed to sleep.

Does it have the right to ban acts of collective worship? I’m glad the churches are standing up against this objecting because earlier in the year I thought they possibly went a little too quietly.

And banning golf? Brady says when the PM was challenged on this on Monday, he could not defend the golf ban; the PM just said you could not unpick the package.”

He was jopined in his criticism by the former Prime Minister Theresa May who said that data on mental health, suicides, the economy, jobs lost, failed businesses and damaged sectors has not been made available by the Government throughout Covid.

“What sort of airline industry are we going to have coming out of this?” she askeds. “What sort of hospitality sector? How many small independent shops will be left?

“The Government must have made this analysis. They must have made this assessment. Let us see it and make our own judgements.”

She went on to describe the new limits on public worship as open to abuse from “future governments with the worst of intentions”, as it could have “unintended consequences”.

and concluded by saying the Government must present “the right figures, the right data, and the right information” in making the case for lockdowns.

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