Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Influential Tory MP Sir Graham Brady has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stick with the Government's roadmap to freedom and end Covid restrictions on June 21.
The Altrincham and Sale West MP, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, has been a long-standing critic of lockdown restrictions which he believes have reached too far into people's lives.
As coronavirus infection rates soar across Greater Manchester, he entered the debate again in a column for a national newspaper, urging the government to weigh the damage that would be caused by extending restrictions against the progress that has been made in protecting the vulnerable