Lockdown parts of Leicester East’ says it MP Claudia Webbe

She said the spread of the virus was focused in her constituency 

MP Claudia Webbe has said parts of Leicester East should be put into a localised lockdown to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Ms Webbe has told LeicestershireLive she is very concerned about infection rates within her constituency and has said the Government was reckless to start relaxing restrictions as early as it did.

The Labour MP today told LeicestershireLive: “It is 10 days since Matt Hancock announced the outbreak.

“The figures I have seen from the testing stations show the rate of infections has not been going down.

“The rate is at 15 per cent, whereas Boris Johnson said it needed to be 10 per cent.

“The Government’s message about social distancing is at best confusing and at worst unclear.”

She added: “Schools have had to close in Leicester East because of coronavirus, a supermarket had to close.

“We know the problem is in Leicester East, not spread across the city.

“People from Leicester East need to be not travelling across the city.

“I don’t know how it would work but they have to implement a local lockdown.

“In my view, we need to go back to the standard of lockdown we had at the beginning.”

Ms Webbe accused the Government of ‘drip-feeding’ the truth of the Covid-19 situation.

She said Government ministers had been leaking information out.

Leicester City Council analysis of recent Covid-19 testing results show the most positive tests were in wards in the north and east of the city though it looking in greater detail at specific postcode data to see what local interventions might be necessary.

Claudia Webbe MP is the member of Parliament for Leicester East. You can follow her at www.facebook.com/claudiaforLE and twitter.com/ClaudiaWebbe