Melodrama, melancholy and madness: Inside Greater Manchester's lockdown battle with government
manchestereveningnews.co.ukan incandescent and inconclusive meeting with Downing Street on the previous Friday evening. Tonight the mayor, councils and ministers have still not budged - only now, Boris Johnson has begun ratcheting up the pressure live on TV, accusing Andy Burnham of putting people’s lives at risk.The turmoil and melodrama that had ensued in between has played out not only in the glare of cameras and national headlines, but also via muttered briefings, tense private meetings and an apparent ‘divide and rule’ northern strategy from the government, as millions of people and businesses here have looked on in incredulity, confusion and, in many cases, deep anger and anxiety.That row has also tapped into a decades-old resentment towards power exercised by.
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