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Government ensures a ‘winter of hardship’ for Greater Manchester
Andy Burnham warns Johnson's financial package will ‘increase poverty, homelessness and hardship’ in the region
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham arrives to speak the media outside Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, following last-ditch talks with the Prime Minister
THE government ensured “a winter of hardship” for Greater Manchester today as ministers refused to offer the “bare minimum” of funding for the region’s Tier 3 lockdown.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said that the government walked away from talks at 2pm today without agreeing on a financial package.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson later announced that the region would go into the harshest form of local lockdown from midnight on Thursday.
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