Tonight all attention is on the unusual alliance of right wing Tory MPs and Labour local officials, led by @AndyBurnhamGM, who for very different reasons want to keep Manchester out of Tier 3 restrictions (the Tories because they see the social cure as worse than the...
disease, Manc Labour because they want more compensation for damaged businesses and workers). But the economic impact of the imposition of Tier 2 restrictions on London, the biggest hospitality market in the UK by a...
country mile, will be significant. The prospects for pubs and restaurants are dire once again - and under the terms of the Job Support Scheme it is now much more expensive for them to keep staff on their books (they pay half wages for roughly a third of hours), and...
for staff on the scheme there is an earnings loss of more than a fifth. The knock-ons to shops, to landlords, to lenders will be significant. And we can’t be certain - as the government’s scientific advisers have made crystal clear - that these restrictions will...
in practice have more than a marginal dampening impact on the rate of transmission of the illness. I am not saying that the new rules for London are wrong. But I suppose I am saying that when it comes to the impact on millions of people’s lives, the unity of government and...
London’s mayor may be more significant (for better or worse) than the disunity of government and Greater Manchester metro mayor.
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