and two or3 the deepest recession for 300 years and two or 3 millionjobs the deepest recession for 300 years and two or 3 million jobs destroyed. and mental health problems that go with it. what we‘re saying is that there is no necessity at the present time for a lockdown in the north—east of england. if it has to happen, it has to happen. i am working hard, along with other leaders of the north—east of england to win public confidence to get people to buy into these measures and to work together to reduce the level of infection across the region. what we‘re saying across —— to the government is to work with us not against us. as we‘ve been hearing, the uk economy recovered more slowly than expected in august, growing by 2.1%. although this is the fourth consecutive month of growth, it was considerably smaller than that seen injune and july, despite the introduction in august of the government‘s ‘eat 0ut to help 0ut‘ scheme,