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Raab says Burnham should not be 'pulling up the drawbridge'

October 16, 2020
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Raab says Burnham should not be 'pulling up the drawbridge'

International Secretary Dominic Raab has mentioned Andy Burnham must be working with the federal government quite than ‘pulling up the drawbridge’.

Mr Raab mentioned the faster points over the brand new tier system are resolved in Larger Manchester ‘the higher for the nation as a complete’.

He was talking on Radio 4’s As we speak programme this morning (Friday) after a dramatic intervention by the area’s mayor yesterday over strain to place the area on ‘Tier 3’ lockdown.

Native leaders are at loggerheads with the federal government over the extent of monetary assist Larger Manchester would get whether it is pressured to simply accept essentially the most extreme coronavirus restrictions.

Andy Burnham talking exterior Central Library on Thursday
(Picture: Joel Goodman)

Mr Raab insisted that the brand new tiering system will keep away from a blanket lockdown – which Labour chief Kier Starmer has referred to as for.

“The faster we will get these points resolved the higher for the nation as a complete,” he mentioned.

“There’s a danger this method gained’t work so the reply is to lean in as shortly as doable which is why Andy – who I’ve bought numerous respect for, I’ve identified him for a few years – must now be working with the federal government as a substitute of pulling up the drawbridge.

“There’s an enormous bundle of assist in place and naturally we’ve bought the perverse irony that he’s resisting focused measures in Manchester whereas Kier Starmer, the chief of the Labour Occasion, is asking for a 3 week nationwide stage lockdown, which is much extra damaging to the financial system.”

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The International Secretary mentioned the scientific recommendation means that imposing the tiered focused method ‘correctly and absolutely’ will work and ‘that approach we keep away from the very financial affect that Andy Burnham is criticising us for’.

He added: “Now we have taken the balanced cautious method – focused measures, an enormous quantity of assist that’s getting in for these native areas. That’s why I pay tribute to Sadiq Khan in London and Steve Rotheram in Merseyside and the door will all the time be open for Andy to take action.

“I believe that’s the method the individuals of Manchester need and it’s additionally the way in which we keep away from a extra extreme set of nationwide lockdown measures.”

When requested if the nation was heading for an additional nationwide lockdown anyway, Mr Raab mentioned the brand new tiers, correctly applied ‘with the total vim and vigour of native authorities in addition to central authorities’ might be efficient.

The Larger Manchester Mayor talking exterior the Manchester Central Library
(Picture: PA)

“We are able to solely make it work with the cooperation of native leaders,” he added.

“I hope Andy will decide up the cellphone, work with us and get it achieved.”

The area’s Tory MPs have joined forces with Labour MPs to place strain on the Prime Minister’s dealing with of the second coronavirus wave.

One former Tory cupboard minister has mentioned the ‘overwhelming majority’ of Tory MPs are towards the present technique of three tiers of restrictions.

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Additional talks between the area’s MPs and the federal government are due as we speak.

However when Mr Raab was requested about this he mentioned motion is required now.

“The sooner we will act, notably in these focused methods, the more practical the measures are and the extra we will forestall the chance of a nationwide lockdown, whether or not it’s a circuit breaker or in any other case,” he mentioned.

International Secretary Dominic Raab
(Picture: PA)

Mr Raab argued that ‘tens of millions of jobs’ have been protected by means of the furlough scheme and assist is in place by means of Common Credit score and different packages.

Mr Burnham yesterday accused the federal government of treating the North with ‘contempt’, claiming the area was being handled ‘because the canaries within the coal mine’ for an experimental regional lockdown technique.

He claimed the Authorities’s personal high scientific advisors have advised him such a method has no assure of success and can end in job losses and hardship.

He mentioned: “They’re asking us to gamble our residents’ jobs, houses and companies and a big chunk of our financial system on a method that their very own specialists inform them may not work. We’d by no means join that.”

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