Lockdown-breaching Leicester mayor accused of being in 'denial' about scale of Covid in his city

The former labour MP has been accused of being 'all over the place' when it came to deciding how to tackle the rise in cases

As a rallying call to the people of Leicester to stay apart as much as possible, it was a curious choice of words.

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