The UK's approach to coronavirus has splintered with Scotland heading towards a full lockdown and much of the north of England going under stricter measures.

We're still in the position where too much is being decided behind closed doors without the detail being provided to council leaders and mayors and that is not acceptable given the seriousness of the situation.

Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne.

This week we'll be delving into the coronavirus latest

and whether a more transparent UK wide approach can be achieved

as heard from Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham at the top there with health editor Sarah Neville

and Scotland correspondent Muir Dickie. And later we'll be looking at Boris Johnson's

virtual Conservative conference speech and whether he has any hope of delivering a domestic

agenda during the pandemic. Unravelling that will be political editor George

Parker and political columnist Bobbitt Shrimsley. Sarah and Muir, welcome back to the pod.

Thank you, nice to see you.

Hi, Seth, good to be here.

Now, I was just thinking about these latest restrictions

coming in, looking at our different worlds

and how people are sort of dealing with them there.

And you know, up in Scotland, first of all, obviously, Nicholas Sturgeon has been wearing a lot of

masks and that sort of thing. Have you seen her out and about in any restaurants at

tour before these announcements were made? She certainly wasn't serving up dishes in

as racks to fashion as Rishi Sunak was when he promoted the eat out to help out and I think that the general tone of

Nicholas Sturgeon and her government has been of greater caution throughout the pandemic or at least since May than the UK government.

And Sarah in the health world there I feel like we've seen Matt Hancock out and about

quite a bit trying to say people you can get back to life as normal but it feels like the

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