Warwick and Leamington MP is 'challenging' why the Warwick district is being placed in highest Covid tier

Earlier today the Government announced the regional Covid tiers - with the Warwick District and Warwickshire as a whole being placed in Tier 3.

Warwick and Leamington MP Matt Western has said that this tier announcement will have a 'seriously damaging' impact on businesses and that he is challenging the Tier allocation for the district.

Mr Western said: "It is deeply concerning that Warwick and Leamington entered lockdown in Tier 1 and will come out of it into Tier 3.

"This will be seriously damaging to local businesses and places deep restrictions on our social lives.

"This demonstrates why the Government should have acted harder and faster by introducing a circuit break much earlier – as myself and other Labour colleagues were calling for.

"We will now be paying the price for the Government’s dither and delay.

"This decision has been taken by the Government in Westminster, without input from local representatives like myself.

"I am pressing for full transparency on the basis of this decision, and challenging why Warwick District has been placed in the highest Tier alongside other areas, rather than being judged as a lower-tier Local Authority area which would make most sense under a localised tier system."