Rishi Sunak has been slammed for “short-changing the north” after cutting stricken pubs’ grants to a third of what they were in the March lockdown.
The Chancellor announced last week that medium-sized venues forced to close in a Tier 3 lockdown would get £500 a week. Yet the same businesses could claim the equivalent of £1,666 a week in the first lockdown, Labour analysis shows.
Labour branded the gap a “kick in the teeth” for northern areas forced into the strictest lockdown - where pubs must shut unless they can operate as a restaurant.
Liverpool City Region is already in Tier 3 and Greater Manchester and Lancashire could both be forced into the same tier on Thursday.
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