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High Risk Plan For High Risk Areas (with Andrew Bridgen MP)


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As the government gets ready to set out its three-tier plan for restrictions to limit the spread of Covid19, questions grow about its effectiveness and burden falling disproportionately on some areas of northern England.
Andrew Bridgen, Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, is one of the MPs who pushed hard for Parliament to get a say on new curbs. But he tells Bloomberg Westminster's Sebastian Salek and Roger Hearing he's minded to vote in favour of this plan despite doubts about the usefulness of the 10pm pub and restaurant curfew.
Plus, can red wall voters be convinced to come back to Labour? Deborah Mattinson, founder and director of BritainThinks, joins to talk about her new book, Beyond the Red Wall.
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