The hidden prices of lockdown – POLITICO

Jack Blanchard abandons Westminster for every week and explores the hidden prices of lockdown, by delving into the postbags of two MPs in numerous components of the U.Okay.

Tory MP Robert Halfon explains the struggles households face in his nook of Essex, and warns of rising home abuse throughout lockdown. And one in all his constituents explains how abuse victims are repeatedly failed by Britain’s secretive household courts system. In Bristol, Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire talks concerning the affect lockdown has had on the town’s legendary nightlife, and the broader arts scene. And nightclub proprietor Marti Burgess tells of her fears that among the metropolis’s premier cultural nightspots might by no means return.