Coronavirus: Greater Manchester leaders set to ask for £75m support
by Helen Pidd North of England editor and Josh Hallid from World news | The Guardian on (#59960)
Local leaders are understood to have agreed to ask for lump sum as noon deadline to agree to tier 3 curbs approaches
Greater Manchester leaders are set to demand a 75m support package from government to break the increasingly tense standoff with ministers over the imposition of England's strictest coronavirus restrictions.
With minutes to go before the noon deadline set by the communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, on Monday night, local leaders are understood to have agreed to ask for the 75m lump sum, which could be used to top up the wages of the lowest paid over winter.
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