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  • After days of wrangling with local leaders, the prime minister says a £60 million support package for Greater Manchester will be distributed to local councils in the region, effectively bypassing the mayor, Andy Burnham.

  • Talks between the government and local leaders ended in no agreement a prime minister's questions the labor leader secure.

  • Starmer accused the government of pitting regions against each other on of bargaining with people's lives.

  • Here's our deputy political editor, Vicky Young.

  • For months, life hasn't been normal anywhere in the UK, but slowly, more and more of us are being told to live once again under very tight restrictions, telling us who we can see, where we can travel, what stays open on what must close.

  • Boris Johnson insisted today that the sacrifices are paying off that the coronavirus isn't spreading as fast as it did in the spring.

  • Why is it so chaotic?

  • But he's being accused of reducing the amount of help going toe workers whose businesses are ordered to shut.

  • There is no other country in Europe, Mr Speaker, where so much support, so much help has been given to the population to get through this crisis on, we will continue to do that.

  • But that's not how the mayor of Greater Manchester sees it.

  • Negotiations over financial support for his area descended into mudslinging after days of uncertainty.

  • The prime minister announced that £60 million would now be given directly to councils, people working in betting shops that the labor leader says workers will be short changed because the new job support scheme pays less than the furlough scheme.

  • It's replacing their rent and their mortgage won't be lower.

  • Their food and their heating bills won't be lower on.

  • That could last for months.

  • Why can't the prime is from the chancellor?

  • Understand this.

  • Stop bargaining with people's lives, stop dividing communities and provide the support that's needed in Manchester talk, Mr.

  • Speaker, I'm very proud that this government has already given greater Manchester £1.1 billion in in support for business.

  • On there's another row brewing about money with another Labor Mayor Sadiq Khan says London's transport network TfL needs a second bailout from the government.

  • Ministers say that will only happen if the mayor puts up fares on taxes rather than punishing Londoners playing party political games.

  • Let's get around a table on do a deal.

  • That's right for Tier, Phil.

  • That's right for London on that's right for our country.

  • As this pandemic drags on, the bills rack up The arguments about how much the government should fork out will continue for months.

  • Ministers insist that most of the negotiations have Bean straightforward.

  • But the recent acrimony between some local leaders and central government suggests that politics is starting to get in the way.

  • Back.

  • Back in the Commons, tempers have bean spilling over to Excuse me, did the honorable lady just call me Skull Order, Order, order, order from the front bench?

  • We will not have remarks like that.

  • Not under any circumstances.

  • The row over funding for Greater Manchester isn't quite over.

  • But with new restrictions imminent, politicians from all parties are urging people to follow the rules.

  • The key young BBC News Westminster, one of the big issues for millions of people living under Tier two restrictions.

  • The high alert level is this far less support for businesses than those in Tier three.

  • The hospitality industry calls it.

  • The worst of all worlds are economics editor Faisal Islam is with me now.

  • The chancellor is expected to address this tomorrow what was certainly expecting an announcement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer tomorrow in the House of Commons on what we do know is that this issue is being discussed in private talks that were going on into the night on essentially boils down to this that you have, as we've been hearing three tears off restrictions across England in this case.

  • But you only have to tears of support, and the gap between the two is quite large, sort of 22% taxpayer support for wages versus two thirds, 66%.

  • And so there's that area in the middle, as we've been hearing where in essentially Tier two, you don't have to shut down your pub or your restaurant, but your business model is not gonna work frankly with these sorts of restrictions, some recognition of that within government on there'll be some moves along those lines.

  • If what I'm hearing is correct, I think it's something that a number off local leaders, especially some conservative leaders, for example, the mayor off the West Midlands and the streets have said that they're concerned about, but in general to when the chancellor announces winter economic plan, it was set against a backdrop off infections declining on the economic recovery, beginning to take hold.

  • That is no longer the situation as we have seen.

  • So I think we'll see some addressing of these issues tomorrow.

  • Thank you.

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