Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Furious Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has blasted Nicola Sturgeon for imposing a Scotland "travel ban" to Manchester without any consultation.
He says that first minister Sturgeon's announcement on Friday that leisure travel to Manchester or Salford is no longer permitted due to rising coronavirus cases, came completely "out of the blue".
Mr Burnham is now demanding compensation for anyone affected by the travel ban, which comes into force from Monday. In an explosive interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Mr Burnham said: "I was really disappointed on Friday when the first minister of Scotland just announced out of the blue as far as we
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