Greater Manchester’s politicians have been responding to the latest lockdown annoucment
Wigan MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said on twitter
“This is beyond chaos. How can learning go online tomorrow when teachers were told to spend the last two weeks planning for reopening? What will replace exams? And since the PM was told by SAGE that this would almost certainly be necessary on 22 December why is he so unprepared?
Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell on the same subject tweeted
“I feel so much for all heads around the country who have spent weeks planning for one kind of school return, now only to find themselves writing letters to parents at 9pm and having to put completely different plans in place for key worker & vulnerable kids & no exams tomorrow”
While Oldham MP Jim McMahon said
“I don’t think this is the mood of the nation. Johnson is always too late, refusing to make difficult calls early enough to get ahead of the virus”
The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham tweeted that Millions will be worried sick tonight about how they’re going to manage this financially.
Rishi Sunak needs to go back to his positive approach at the start of the pandemic & honour his “no one left behind” pledge.” adding
“It would help rebuild the sense of national unity we will need.”
