Where's The Plan? (With Mick Whitley MP)

09/29/20 • 22 min

There's confusion over why only some parts of the country are in almost total lockdown, with some MPs and city mayors questioning the usefulness of shutting pubs and restaurants at 10 pm.

Mick Whitley, Labour MP for Birkenhead, which is under a local lockdown, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Sebastian Salek and Roger Hearing there is no cohesive plan.

Plus, how do politicians expect us to trust them in these sort of decisions when they don't look or sound like us? Kezia Dugdale, former Labour leader in Scotland, now director of the John Smith Centre, joins to discuss a new survey of trust showing big variations based on race, age and gender.

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There's confusion over why only some parts of the country are in almost total lockdown, with some MPs and city mayors questioning the usefulness of shutting pubs and restaurants at 10 pm.

Mick Whitley, Labour MP for Birkenhead, which is under a local lockdown, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Sebastian Salek and Roger Hearing there is no cohesive plan.

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Bloomberg UK Politics - Where's The Plan? (With Mick Whitley MP)

Transcript

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