Name: Boris Johnson forces toughest restrictions on Manchester after talks collapse - BBC News
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The prime minister has imposed Tier three restrictions on Greater Manchester from Friday, England's highest Corona virus alert level, after talks with local leaders collapsed as they wrangled over money.

The government offered to give the region £60 million to help people through the new measures.

Participle clauses

But the mayor, Andy Burnham, wanted five million MAWR and refused the offer, saying it wasn't enough.

Hours later, Boris Johnson went ahead and imposed the toughest restrictions, saying Not toe act now would put the lives of Manchester's residents at risk.

But from midnight on Thursday, all pubs and bars that do not serve substantial meals will have to close.

There'll be no household mixing anywhere indoors or in private gardens.

The region will receive £22 million to help with test and trace, among other things.

But talks are expected to resume with the government on local leaders about how much more will be given as an economic support package for businesses.

The government's offer of £60 million is still on the table.

First tonight, our deputy political editor, Vicky Young.

For more than a week, the politicians have argued for businesses that's meant uncertainty on anxiety today.

His pub in Wigan has to close when suddenly it was coming.

So it could be bad news for the business in the struggle.

But it's good news to finally get some information to finally know, right?

Now we start making plans for the business for the staff.

We'll start figure out what we're actually gonna dio.

Manchester's leaders have been demanding more money to help workers whose income will fall because of closures.

They were given until midday to accept a final offer from the government.

But there was no agreement and ministers in London said they'd impose tougher restrictions.

We made a generous and extensive offer to support Manchester's business.

I want to stress this offer was proportionate to the support we've given Merseyside on blank ship.

Unfortunately on, given the public health situation, I must now proceed with moving greater Manchester as I say to the very high alert level on Dhere.

Is the mayor finding out scraps of information during his own press conference since going to be £20 million only on they are going to try and pick off individual councils.

This is no way to run the country in a national crisis.

They should not be doing this grinding people down, trying to accept the least that they could get away with.

His team calculated that £90 million was needed until the end of March.

Eventually, he said, he'd accept 65 million.

They playing poker with places and peoples lives through a pandemic.

Is that what this is about the people who drive those taxes who work in the pubs, many of them who may have voted for them?

They said to them they would level or what we've seen today is a deliberate act off leveling down eso What help is there for areas in the very high alert level?

The government offers financial support amounting to £8 per head of the local population.

So for Greater Magister that would mean £22 million.

This is just a fund contact tracing enforcement on helping the clinically vulnerable.

On top of that, Lancashire and Liverpool city region also agreed extra economic package is worth millions.

But talks on similar funding for Greater Manchester have stalled.

Are you withdrawing the extra what you called generous offer?

Is that now off the table on What do you say to the mayor of Greater Manchester, who has accused you of grinding down communities through these negotiations?

I bitterly regret any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses into people's lives.

Of course, I do the funds of their their massive on bond.

What we couldn't do, I hope people understand, was do a deal with Greater Manchester that really would have bean out of kilter with the agreements we'd already reached with with Merseyside and on with Lancashire.

Later, Downing Street clarified that the offer of 60 million waas still on the table other areas, including Teesside and South Yorkshire, are locked in their own battle with the government over money.

It's an urgent situation, but progress is slow.

Vicky Young, BBC News Westminster Well, Greater Manchester is one of the largest local authority areas in the UK It's made up of 10 separate boroughs, all of which will move to the highest alert level, affecting around 2.8 million people.

Greater Manchester will join the Liverpool city region and Lancashire in the very high or tier three alert level.

Bolton and Greater Manchester has the fastest rising number of coronavirus cases.

It was already under some of the toughest co vid restrictions on North of England.

Correspondent Danny Savage is there for us now, Danny.

Yeah, so if there's already a high profile campaign here in Bolton telling people what to do on what the restrictions are at the moment there are these signs in the town center and during the day they're allowed speakers which broadcast messages telling people where to go and how to get a test if they need one.

Now, the idea of these Tier three restrictions air to drive down the number of Crate cases ons, stop the spread of coronavirus, But will they work well?

We've been talking to people here today and they are met, some of them doubtful that they will work.

Bolton has been under some sort of coronavirus restrictions for months longer than most places, but the infection rate is still high.

There were 1300 confirmed cases last week.

People here think something Mawr is needed.

And so now what you've got is that they said No, it won't affect me.

Some people are just carrying on is normal.

The rest of us are trying our best to abide by the rules.

Tier three restrictions will not turn places like Bolton into ghost towns.

Schools will continue to operate on advice to make fewer journeys is just that advice, not the law.

And as a result, many people we've spoken to don't believe the Tier three restrictions will have the desired effect here.

Do you think people will follow the rules this time?

I don't think people will follow the rules strictly as you did in March in April, the thought of Christmas being canceled.

If it's gonna be that you can, I think people will break break the rules to see the family.

We've done the stint of the full lock down thinking that this would wear off in Nothing's changed, and now it seems like it's getting worse.

She supported Andy Burnham's efforts to get the best deal, but can't see how many people will now make ends meet.

He bills aren't going to stop being paired, are they?

You know, if we could live on 80% then we would work 80% what we can, and it's going lower now.

So that's another worries in it, being ableto afford everything because nothing is gonna change.

It's taken a long time to get to the point of restrictions being imposed.

You don't feel that the measures so far this year have worked at all.

Well, obviously, no way we're not getting any closer to an end result so far seems to be getting like, further and further away from an end result of the moment.

Once MAWR into tougher restrictions goes greater Manchester to the relief of some.

So follow the rules where face covering on the annoyance of others keep your 2 m distance.