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Andy Burnham will hold a press conference this afternoon following the Prime Minister’s announcement on Saturday night.
Just a week after Greater Manchester moved into tighter restrictions, all of England will be put under a national lockdown.
Beginning Thursday (November 5), nonessential businesses and hospitality venues are due to close, home mixing is prohibited, and people are again encouraged to stay home.
The measures, which are expected to last until December 2, will also come with an 80% extension of the license scheme.
This has been greeted with anger by northern leaders after their calls for a better financial package for Level 3 areas went unanswered.
Instead, workers were offered 67% of salary through the government’s Work Support Program, which was supposed to go into effect today when the leave program closed.
In a tweet Saturday night after Boris Johnson’s delayed press conference and in response to a tweet from Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Burnham said: “But when we asked you to do that for the lowest paid people in the North , he refused. I’ll remember it here. “
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has also spoken of how the government “dismissed the call from the North” on the licensing scheme amid further allegations that the government treated this part of the country with “contempt.”
Burnham will be joined at his press conference by Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, who tweeted after the announcement: “We now know for a fact that the Government believes that workers in the North are worth 13% less than from the south”.
Follow the press conference updates as they occur below:
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