Good evening members — it’s been an important few days in the news so we thought we would do one of our ‘behind the headlines’ newsletters today that offers a quick hit of information and context on a few important stories instead of one in-depth feature. We’ve had good feedback on this format before so we hope it’s useful.

The topics today are yesterday’s Budget, the Covid-19 data in Greater Manchester, and an interesting answer from Andy Burnham about how ‘zoomshocks’ might impact Greater Manchester.