As Britain edges toward lockdowns, long-held grievances flare up.

Britain’s desperate attempt to curb a second wave of the coronavirus has exposed multiple fractures in its politics and society, but perhaps none as jagged as that between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the mayor of Greater Manchester, the country’s second-largest urban area.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/world/as-britain-edges-toward-lockdowns-long-held-grievances-flare-up.html