After hoping that MPs wouldn’t notice that they’d been given a dud impact assessment of the new tiered system, Boris Johnson is now trying to reduce the size of the rebellion against these measures with the enticing prospect of areas moving down tiers within the next two weeks.
Johnson is trying to reduce the size of the rebellion against these measures
The Prime Minister opened the debate on the new tier regulations by telling MPs that they ‘have it in their powers, in our power, to help move our areas down the tiers’. He also hinted at a more localised approach to the tiering system, which is something many Tory MPs have demanded, and promised to ‘look in granular detail’ at the ‘human geography’ of each area on a regular basis. He then tried to offer a rousing peroration in which he encouraged MPs to be patient for just a little longer.
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