Rule by chaos.

At 21:16 last night, the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, Tweeted that Manchester, parts of Cheshire and Yorkshire were under stricter rules for lockdown.

No warning. No actual written guidance, nothing for police or pub and restaurants owners to comply with.

If the Government has made a statutory instrument changing the lockdown laws, the text of it must exist, and must therefore be able to be made public.

If the Government does not have the text of it, then it cannot exist, and the law cannot have been changed.

Turns out this morning there is no law.

One may be written today, whether its an SI or an actual law that goes through Parliament is unclear, or it might be forgotten about.

As I have said before, making broad policy statements and wish lists is fine, but the actual delivery of those policies is beyond them.