Trafford leader to fight for borough to go into Tier 2 restrictions
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxTrafford council’s leader will fight for the borough to be placed under the lower coronavirus restrictions of Tier 2 next week.The government is due to review the tier placements of areas across the UK on Wednesday December 16.Coun Andrew Western, the borough’s council leader, says he will be writing to government this week pushing for a change on the grounds of Trafford having an infection rate of just 87.6 per 100,000 people, which is ‘significantly less than the national average.’At a full council meeting last night, Coun Western said: “Colleagues will be aware that we were placed into Tier 3 restrictions in spite of being below the national average at that juncture.“We weren’t consulted on that and moving forward the.
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