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Virus curbs widen England's north-south rift, stir animosity


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But there is also resentment over what many see as the government moving too quickly to lift the national lockdown restrictions and failing to create an efficient test-and-trace system to contain new outbreaks.“The embers of the infection here were never extinguished and they burned brighter up here than they did elsewhere in the country,” Paul Brant, a Labour Party member of the Liverpool City Council, said.“Unfortunately, policy in this country is too often directed as a result of what happens in the capital rather than the local conditions that are taking place here in the north,” Brant said.Liverpool’s public officials want more say in controlling the city’s outbreak, an exit strategy for lifting the restrictions and money to make up for years of government spending cuts that have left public services in Britain’s less affluent areas threadbare.The north-south tensions that the pandemic stirred up are never far from the surface. We probably only did about 12% of that this year.”Government scientific advisers have suggested the current restrictions may not be enough and there will have to be even tougher measures, maybe a total lockdown, to bring the outbreak under control.Some fear that the gains of northern cities like Liverpool and Manchester could be undone.“Liverpool fought, everyone fought, to get into a position now where we were all actually looking forward to 2020,” John Hughes, the head of local industry group Liverpool Pubwatch, said.

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