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In January the mayor commissioned consultants to do an in depth review of troubled Greater Manchester Police, at a cost of ~£300k. The report is done and, according to several

One thing I heard yesterday is that GM had asked for £15m a month on the furlough/self employment side. Apparently govt view is that this in reality means £90m, costed

Brief summary of what's going on between GM and govt. So it seems there was a meeting between local and national officials this morning, at which the idea of a

Breaking: GM leaders told there will be no imminent decision announced to the house this morning in GM. Here’s what I think is happening - GM leaders in meeting with

Ok, a thread on where it feels things are up to. Here goes. (First thing is to say, as noted to me earlier, that the general position seems to change

To echo what @NinaWarhurst said earlier: we’ve been banned from going round each other’s houses since the end of July. Now facing potentially indefinite pub closures. I know I said

After a good sleep (and an even better curry) and in the full knowledge I’m probably going to have to work today, have been thinking about the past couple of

The concerns I’m getting so far re this massive anomaly/backlog in Covid statistics relates to contact tracing as much as anything else. The ‘computer problem’ the PM referred to this

Andrew Marr asking the PM why the infection rate in Oldham has doubled while they’ve been under extra restrictions. They’re not working are they? PM: it’s too early to say

I wonder what would have happened this summer if the Covid patterns we’ve seen in the north of England had begun in London first. Would randomly changing measures have been

Seems like England is now under the scope of lockdown type things, aside from Leicester, bits of Leicestershire, Blackburn, Pendle, Bradford, other bits of W Yorkshire and E Lancs, all

Mentioned the reagent/staffing issue in my piece on Friday, but here’s a contact explaining the current UK lab capacity issue.‘My understanding is the [pillar 2] labs were employing students who