Ministers accused of ignoring pleas from northern England for three months – only agreeing to help once London entered tier 2
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The government has been accused of London-centric decision-making as the chancellor looked set to help to businesses suffering under Covid restrictions less than a week after a ban on household mixing came into force in the capital – after ignoring similar pleas from much of the north of England for almost three months.
The complaints came as a minister said there had been a “good resolution” to negotiations about putting Greater Manchester under the tightest tier 3 restrictions, after the region’s only Conservative council leader broke ranks with his Labour colleagues to negotiate a bespoke deal for Bolton.
