Burnham: Local lockdown will ‘go down like a lead balloon’

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Published on May 13, 2021 - Duration: 01:07s

Burnham: Local lockdown will ‘go down like a lead balloon’

Andy Burnham says a local lockdown would “go down like a lead balloon” in Greater Manchester, “because they didn’t work last year.” The mayor was speaking after Boris Johnson refused to rule out the introduction of a local lockdown in Bolton, which has seen a surge in Indian variant (B16172) coronavirus cases.

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