United Kingdom, those in the Tories contest Johnson to get out of the lockdown
The point of Daniele Meloni
That the Conservative party has never been kind to its leaders was well known. That the honeymoon between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his deputies had been short but intense, too. But on the fight against the coronavirus poor BoJo is living like a poor San Sebastian, pierced by arrows that reach him from all over.
Last in chronological order, the letter sent to him by 50 backbenchers of his party, asking him for a quick exit from the lockdown imposed in the north of the country , stating that with the restriction measures imposed by the government, the economic and social gap in these regions is widening more and more.
The letter is signed by the Northern Research Group and features former Brexit Minister David Davis and former Home Secretary Esther McVey, a Tatton MP in Merseyside and leader of the Blue Collar Conservatives, the Tories group that lobbies for working class policies and has 160 members in the House of Commons.
Johnson responded immediately by affirming his commitment to rebalancing inequalities in the UK, especially those between London and the rest of the country. But the problem remains. The spokesman and president of the newborn Group, Jake Berry, said he appreciates the measures taken by Johnson and Sunak to financially support the entrepreneurs, but fears that in the constituencies that the Tories won sensationally on last December 12, the government program is stopped and the leveling up – the leveling up – promised by Johnson in the election campaign may remain a dead letter.
Meanwhile, the town of Warrington – located between the Greater Manchester area and Liverpool in Cheshire – also entered level 3 of the restrictions caused by the pandemic: this means that socializing with members outside the family nucleus, pubs and bars will be prohibited will be forced to close, as will bingo halls and betting centers, while residents are advised not to leave the city.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/regno-unito-chi-nei-tories-contesta-johnson-per-uscire-dal-lockdown/ on Tue, 27 Oct 2020 06:40:29 +0000.