Three MPs have written to health secretary Matt Hancock to call for ‘urgent and targeted support’ to address the surge in coronavirus cases in Oldham and avoid the need for a harder lockdown.
A blunt lockdown would ‘devastate an already fragile local economy and send more people into financial hardship’, according to the letter from Jim McMahon, Debbie Abrahams and Angela Rayner.
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