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the Labor mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has continued to clash with the government over locked down restrictions for the region.

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Burnham wants greater financial support if the strictest measures are introduced.

He has today spoken with a senior Downing Street adviser.

But he earlier accused Boris Johnson of exaggerating the severity of coronavirus in the area.

His words were echoed by the senior conservative MPs, the grain Brady, whose constituency is in the region.

The Cabinet office minister, Michael Gove, accused Mr Burnham of inconsistency in his approach.

Here's our deputy political editor, Vicky Young, waiting for work and waiting to find out what's coming next for Greater Manchester Taxi driver John says.

For months, the tighter rules here, compared to many other parts of the country, have meant fewer passengers.

He's worried about the possibility of even more restrictions.

We need help up in the North if what bring these things in, You know the need financial backing because otherwise it's gonna be even worse again.

This has been going on for a long time now on.

Nothing seems to be resolved on our cover is not just gonna disappear overnight, but people who work whether it be in page where unemployment, self employed businesses, they all need help.

For days, politicians here and in London have been trying to reach an agreement.

The region's labor mayor, Andy Burnham's, accused the government of exaggerating Manchester's rise in covert cases and says more restrictions must mean MAWR financial support.

What we need is a fair financial framework.

If the governments are going to insist on Tier three at the moment, they're doing side deals with individual councils.

Let's remember the places they're trying to close in Tier three pubs, bookies, gyms.

These are places where people are on low wages on what we're saying is you cannot take away their place of work and not give them support.

Burnham says he hasn't seen any scientific evidence that extra measures would work, but ministers insist action is needed soon.

The fundamental in clearance in the position of Andy Burnham is that on the one hand, as I say, he says, actually, the virus is not spreading at a rate that merits these restrictions on.

Then he's saying, but actually I will have them if I have the money.

If he were being truly truly concerned about public health, then he would say Let's have these restrictions on the other thing is earlier we have the restrictions, the answer in those areas where there is high instance, the better for the economy of those areas because we stop the infection spreading in a way which will do further damage to the economy as well as to public health.

It's not just labor politicians who are skeptical.

Some conservative MPs in the area have also Bean speaking out.

Certainly the members of parliament of both parties, the council, leaders of both parties on the mayor of Greater Manchester have bean resisting a move to Tier three on the basis that we simply haven't been given the evidence that it would be effective.

Rising cases of forcing politicians everywhere interaction Welsh government ministers met this afternoon to discuss options for a further tightening restrictions across Wales.

The first minister has said that a short, sharp locked down could slow the spread of the virus.

Vicky Young, BBC News Let's speak now to our health correspondent Dominique Use, who's insulted in Greater Manchester on Dominic.

What do the figures there tell us of what's going on?

Well, read to the question I think many people in Greater Manchester might be asking themselves tonight is whether the situation here is grave and worsening, with cases doubling every nine days, Which is how the prime minister described the situation on Friday, or whether the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, is right to describe that as an exaggeration.

Well, since the first of September, we can see the infection rate in the city of Manchester on this chart.

The Blue Line rose sharply for the first few weeks around the same time that thousands of students returned to the city at the start of the university year.

But in the days leading up to the 10th of October, it has since declined.

Now, over the same period, the wider region of Greater Manchester, the line in red, which includes nine other borrowers, again saw a steady rise.

There are a few peaks and troughs, but then it shows signs of leveling off in recent weeks.

And if we look at infection rates for the week ending the 12th of October, Manchester was running at 458 infections per 100,000 people.

In comparison, Nottingham was it 880 while dairy and straw ban in Northern Ireland was Atmore than 1000.

But in many ways, it doesn't matter how many people are getting infected with the virus.

It's how many people are falling so seriously ill that they are admitted to hospital.

Now if a big group of students becomes infected with the coronavirus, there fits.

They're in the early twenties, for example, they are unlikely to place an enormous burden on the health service.

But it's when people who are elderly or have underlying health conditions start falling ill.

Or that's when we're likely to see hospital admissions rising on the health service, experiencing the kind of pressure that we're seeing in the spring.

Let's go back to Vicky Young, who's in Westminster for us and Vicky.

Just how far is the government's local locked down strategy under strain?

Well, I think it is, and I think what's interesting is if you look across the United Kingdom, the different approaches that are being taken, we know in Northern Ireland they've already introduced this four weeks of extra restrictions, pubs and restaurants closing the world's governments set to introduce its own short, sharp period off extra measures to they're likely to make that decision tomorrow.

But Boris Johnson is sticking to this local approach.

He think it's far more targeted in a far better way.

Today, both sides a greater Manchester and the government here in London have said that things have bean mawr constructive.

And I do get a sense talking to both sides that there is mawr off eight willingness to get together.

Now the Treasury is sticking by what it said previously that it will only pay two thirds of the wages of workers whose businesses are forced to shut so they won't budge there.

But I don't get the impression they would block it if extra money was required.

It's not just greater Manchester, of course.

South Yorkshire tomorrow will have Mawr talks about whether extra restrictions should be brought in there, too.

But I think politicians off all parties will not be thanked if they can't get together on come up with a solution.