By Alex Metcalfe, Local Democracy Reporter
Conservatives Simon Clarke, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, and Redcar MP Jacob Young. TWO Teesside MPs have defended their call for the region to be moved onto a lower rung of Covid restrictions after criticism from a senior councillor. Conservative Tees Valley MPs have called on the Government to push Teesside into a lower level of covid restrictions in a bid to help bars and restaurants open once again. But Redcar and Cleveland councillor Steve Kay accused MPs of “playing to the gallery” at a health meeting on yesterday (Monday). Councillors were told how rates of Covid in Redcar and Cleveland had flattened – but were beginning to rise once again in Middlesbrough.