This is doing my nut. How can he possibly justify this?
It makes more sense than it did. Wiltshire and Rutland are now the only nearby/actual bordering tier 4/tier 2 areas. The anomalous Rutland seems to be as numbers are falling for two weeks there (although it cycles in rutland).
There are some tier 2 areas bordering tier 3 that should be in 3 though.
The government seem very reluctant to touch all/large areas of cumbria, devon, worcestershire and north yorkshire and remaining enclaves of historic lancashire/cheshire.
Eden's the real outlier though. I think keeping that in tier 2 as Cox wants is a very stupid idea.