A series of calls about northern England Covid restrictions left even the government’s own MPs denouncing a ‘shambles’
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Andy Burnham woke up on Thursday resigned to the fact he had probably failed.
For the last week, the mayor of Greater Manchester had been doing his best to stop the government from imposing tighter restrictions on his 2.8 million constituents, who had already been banned from socialising indoors since the end of July.
