Outraged bosses of pubs, restaurants and cafes in the North say they feel abandoned by the Government as another lockdown looms.
They have pleaded for financial help to avert huge job losses and businesses going to the wall. Greater Manchester metro mayor Andy Burnham said he will oppose changes unless any firms at risk have their wages covered by a local furlough scheme.
Writing exclusively in the Mirror today, he adds: “I am not opposed to further restrictions if there is evidence to support them. “But I am opposed to their being imposed without agreement by a Government trying to deal with a virus on the cheap and making the North of England pay the price.” Peter Kinsella, who runs the Lunya restaurant in Liverpool and has 60 staff, said
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