Chancellor Rishi Sunak blasted for leaving London for Yorkshire simply hours earlier than capital's Tier 4 journey ban

RISHI Sunak left London for his Yorkshire constituency simply hours earlier than the capital was plunged into lockdown, The Solar can reveal.

On Friday afternoon the Chancellor made the 240-mile journey to Richmond in North Yorkshire, the place his household are staying.

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Rishi Sunak left London for his Yorkshire constituency just hours before the capital was plunged into lockdown

Rishi Sunak left London for his Yorkshire constituency simply hours earlier than the capital was plunged into lockdownCredit score: AFP or licensors

And he should spend Christmas available in the market city because of the ban on journey out and in of Tier 4 areas, which covers his foremost house in Downing Road. Aides mentioned he has no plans to return again and had deliberate to do constituency work this week. He visited a neighborhood hospital on the weekend and was proven their vaccine roll-out centre.

Aides insisted that when he left London he was unaware the brand new journey restrictions could be imposed barely 24 hours later.

They mentioned he didn’t know what was going to be introduced, saying he left earlier than Friday’s assembly the place Cupboard ministers had been briefed on the necessity for Tier 4 due to the new strain of Covid.

Mr Sunak dialled into the essential Covid Operations assembly during which Cupboard ministers agreed to impose an efficient lockdown on 17 million individuals within the South East and London.

Mr Sunak has confronted criticism for not showing publicly since a 3rd of the nation was put in efficient lockdown on Sunday and the Authorities’s choice to cancel Christmas bubbles.

The Labour party even mocked him up in a 'missing persons' poster asking: 'Where's Rishi? Last seen in Parliament 1 December. No word since Tier 4 was announced'

The Labour get together even mocked him up in a ‘lacking individuals’ poster asking: ‘The place’s Rishi? Final seen in Parliament 1 December. No phrase since Tier 4 was introduced’Credit score: Twitter

Opposition events have demanded he launch extra monetary help to tens of 1000’s of companies compelled to close in Tier 4 areas.

The Labour get together even mocked him up in a ‘lacking individuals’ poster asking: “The place’s Rishi? Final seen in Parliament 1 December. No phrase since Tier 4 was introduced.”

The Treasury mentioned he has already introduced extra beneficiant help for companies hit by Tier 3 and 4 restrictions by larger enterprise grants.