The mayor of Greater Manchester Labour's Andy Burnham is resisting plans to place the region in Tier three with the toughest restrictions.

He said it would amount to a punishing lock down without proper support for the people on businesses affected.

His views were backed by some conservative MPs on local council leaders.

Now the picture across England is changing rather rapidly.

The gray area on the map is a medium alert.

That means the 10 p.m. curfew on the rule of six.

The expanding orange areas will be on high alert from midnight tomorrow.

In this will now include cities, towns and villages stretching from Barrow in Furness in Cumbria, Toe l'm Bridge down in Surrey.

It includes London on Essex on York on yes.

That means the 28 million people will no longer be able to mix indoors with other households.

At the moment, only the Liverpool city region is in the red tea or three.

That's on very high alert, where people are banned from mixing with other households indoors as well as in most settings outdoors.

But as I mentioned a few moments ago, Greater Manchester on Lancashire could soon be added to that red category.

Well, first, tonight, our political editor, Laura Ginsburg, reports on a government strategy that's under straight.

Is it too late to stop the Northwest doors closing?

The government wants Bolton and every part of Greater Manchester in a limited, locked down pubs and bars.

Sharp travel restrictions, no household mixing.

The students, Dominic and Connor, say, a college.

Everyone's already ignoring the rules, even though it might be like down people still going out in it.

So, like supplying today, I've been mixed with a lot of other people.

There's no social distancing, no nothing.

Angeles had enough, I'm think of it.

But Georgia thinks a limited lock down.

It could be worth it as long as it curbs the stem of coronavirus before Christmas, and people have been able to see friends and family around the time.

That's kind of what my big concern is.

It's not happening.

Fernando.

Listen to the resistance from the mayor of Greater Manchester after angry conversations with Number 10.

They are asking us to gamble our residents, jobs, homes and businesses and a large chunk of our economy on a strategy that their own experts tell them might not work greater Manchester, the Liverpool city region on Lancashire are being set up as the canaries in the coal mine for on experimental, regional, locked down strategy.

This is an important moment.

Greater Manchester will stand firm.

No applause.

From 200 miles away, though, have been furious calls between ministers and MPs, including angry Tories.

The government's not ready to force the northwest still trying to persuade.

So I call upon local leaders to set aside this party politics on toe work with us to put in place the measures that are needed in greater Manchester across the Northwest so that we can deal with this virus and support people through it.

The reluctance of politicians on the ground to back harsher restrictions has been the concern that those who live there will lose out where firms have to close.

The Treasury's promised to stump up two thirds of wages when workers could top up with benefits.

But a well respected former government advisor says that just doesn't cut it.

We're looking at a period of destitution and we want to go back to the days where people can't put shoes on their Children's feet.

You know, this is what we are talking about.

Are we actually asking people in places like Liverpool to go out and prostitute themselves so that actually, they could put food on the table?

But more than 20 million people do know Tonight they'll face extra limits on their lives from midnight on Friday, right across London.

Essex, York, parts of Derbyshire in Cumbria, meeting friends indoors is off for soon.

Maybank's It's yet more time home alone.

Well, I haven't seen anybody inside my flat since March.

It's it's lonely.

So that's why I come out chapter friends outside in the fresh air.

What else can you do?

Martin says his dry cleaning business is already on its knees were in tier one on businesses completely, completely dead.

Look at If we got to tell you, I mean, I don't think it would make much difference anyway by Gina Worries about more time indoors with the kids.

I had her at home with me for six months, which was so hard to keep you entertained.

Unlike his counterparts in the north of England, the London mayor had been pushing for tighter rules.

The virus is spreading rapidly in every corner of our city.

Nobody wants to see more restrictions, but this is deemed to be necessary.

In order to protect Londoners, I must warn London is that we've got a difficult winter ahead.

Downing Street wants to push and pull different parts of the country in and out of limited lockdowns to match the spread of the disease.

But those differences mean a clash.

Ah, war of words, at least between national and local leaders.

But in the end, it's number 10 that has the power to impose tighter rules.

But remember, the Tories want to keep their newfound friends in the north.

There is no easy way out for either side.

Laura can spark BBC News Westminster now the mayor of London Labour's Sadiq Khan, said there was simply no other option than to introduce the new restrictions there.

He said he would continue to press the government for more financial support, but added that the winter months would be difficult.

More concerns have been raised about the impact of the restrictions on businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector, with London's 10,000 pubs and restaurants are special.

Correspondent Lucy Manning has more details.

London's ability to meet up, drink up and to eat out has already been limited.

Theaters shut, nightclub's closed pubs, finishing early and now nine million Londoners facing more restrictions.

Small garden Here Lauren John's owns a pub in Hackney in east London.

Her area has some of the capital's highest co vid rates.

She's now scared what direction her business will go in.

We already had to reduce our capacity massively to allow for social distancing and then the 10 p.m. curfew that's cut trade by about 25%.

Aziz there Now, this not allowing households to mix of laws.

It's just a triple whammy.

You've got such restrictions on us now, but no financial backing from the government unless we're forced to close.

But that won't happen until the next year.

Nearby Ebony Ferguson and her four Children can look out over London, but worry, like many in the city without gardens, how they'll see relations now facing the same problems as many have in parts of the North for months.

My eldest is autistic, um, and partially sighted on.

He sees his Nana every weekend so that's a breaking this pattern, so he's going to struggle with that.

I don't think the man is gonna be able to be outside.

It's too cold for her.

But half on hours drive from Hackney over the River Thames.

Most of the areas in south London have lower rates of co vid cases.

Some here don't think all of London should be stopped from mixing inside with other households.

But politicians are adamant the new restrictions must go across the whole of London because they say Londoners don't work and socialize and live in the same places.

On that, covert cases are going up across every borough in the city, in Southern by Shakespeare's Globe Theater.

The area only has nearly half the rate of code cases compared to London's worst areas.

Unfortunately, the stage is set for more job losses.

We see by the end of October areas, I think we have lost 120 stuff and we've got people who have been working with us for 10 years.

We've been made redundant, so eyes breaking the heart of everyone, I don't think we're going to see in London nightlife until vaccines arrived.

Friends enjoy their last drink for a while.

They won't be able to meet inside from Saturday.

Autumn outside isn't appealing.

Pandemics are really to be honest, We've lived through a lot worse things.

You know we can get through this.

I feel like people just need to be saved, Stay at home and just follow.

The restrictions are in place harder for pubs and restaurants, tougher for families, difficult for friends, light leads like Birmingham and elsewhere.

This will now be life in London.

Lucy Manning, BBC News.

Well, tonight, local leaders in Lancashire have been holding talks on whether to join the Liverpool city region in that top alert level and if so, what kind of government support they think they'd need?

Our special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has spent the day in Burnley, which has seen one of the biggest surges of infection in the UK in recent weeks.

The waiting, the uncertainty.

What next for Burnley?

Normally on Thursday I remember we was very, very busy.

Completely.

We go in quiet.

Even I can see from outside the town is quiet.

It's not doing Star and Dylan any favors at the moment, the business wise, we are getting quiet.

We are losing money because you got a lot of bills to pay.

We've got run to pay day like this.

We're supposed to like 34 starts working in here.

Me and my may.

We've been really quiet, like, literally.

We've been sat here doing nothing.

Council leaders in Lancashire are in talks with the government.

The most severe covert alert level is almost certainly coming, but his cases rise.

So to the frustration of perfect about this I'm hearing about it is boring.

I'm a raised my Children.

They want to ask that they've been tested their negative.

They've gone back to school two days later that there another child has been positive.

So she's come back home again for two weeks.

This is ridiculous.

On down the road, the bridge is still serving.

There seemed to be playing politics with people's livelihoods.

But this constant worry for Simon we're all waiting on a tendril to see if our industry is gonna be shut down while they just fact, it's charitable about watch money they're gonna get it won't make a difference.

You need a full lock down.

E had to, like, go on.

Benefits have never been on benefit I've been working since I was 13 years old.

Official lost.

Her job is in a state agent in the first lock down.

She's 24 still out of work, so they basically just said, Like because of Corvin, they have to let staff go, and I still have bills to pay for.

So, yeah, it's just a massive hit for me.

What are your options?

To move away, to move away and find a new future for myself, really.

But there's another upsetting reality, with the fourth highest in the country at the moment.

Neighboring practices over 50 cases in a week.

It's ripping through the terraced house in.

There's nothing we can do to stop it and Dr Mark job on ISS, seeing it every day now.

So what is the pressure like now on Frontline services, Frontline services, in general practice in particular, is significant.

Practices and services are really really Creek in the hospital is full.

It's where it waas in April at the previous peak.

How dangerous is this moment?

It's dangerous on.

I'm really worried about the people off this area.

It is an anxious time for so many as Lancashire waits to hear its new co vid rules Hugh Tonight local authority leaders across Lancashire a meeting Right now This meeting has been going on since 9 30 tonight, this deal to move to a very high cove.

It alert level.

A deal from the government is being considered.

What they're looking at is the test and trace package on offer.

Does it do the job?

What they're looking at is the financial support package on offer.

The question is, is the government offering enough resources to cover the hit?

That will happen to businesses here, like pubs and bars if they have to close?

I understand that this is being considered as the final offer from the government, and it could still be rejected.

And many thanks again Thomas, our special correspondent there with the situation in Burnley and in Lancashire tonight.

And as Ed was saying really, At the heart of the disagreement between regional leaders in England on government is this question of how much financial support is needed for those areas facing much higher restrictions.

Let's talk to our economic centers toe Faisal Islam has joined me here in the studio.

Is this the heart of the debate really What?

The chancellor?

What the Treasury could do in terms of these regions and help.

They're asking for this pressure on the Treasury here.

The government could just impose thes tier three very high alert levels if they want to do, but they need the local leaders in order.

Thio.

Give it back in locally toe.

Get people frankly to comply.

Toe.

Have a point to these restrictions on DSO.

People like Andy Burnham in Greater Manchester are using that leverage to say, Well, we want the return off the full furlough scheme as it was last March.

80% funding off wages.

Treasury um, my understanding standing firm that that's not what they want to do.

We heard the chancellor today defending the two thirds rate for businesses that have to be shut, saying it compares well with European equivalent schemes that it could be topped up with universal credit for lower paid workers.

But that's not the only issue in the tier to the high alert level areas.

You have this issue where some businesses have their business model temporarily crippled, thinking of pubs where you can't meet between different households indoors on yet they don't have that level of support, they have considerably lower level of support.

The worst of all or both worlds is what they're calling it.

They need support, London's drawing that other places, too, and then just in general now you have companies having to make big decisions based on a worst scenario of what's gonna happen over six months.

Big pub chain Marston's announcing that 2000 employees will move straight from furlough to the They have to let them go.