Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has accused the Scottish Government of “hypocrisy” over a travel ban to the northwest. Nicola Sturgeon announced on Friday all non-essential travel to Manchester and Salford would be banned from Monday, but the Labour mayor said he or his administration were not contacted before the announcement. The first minister pinpointed the areas as COVID-19 hotspots, despite figures in the cities matching case rates in parts of Scotland. “Anyone travelling elsewhere in the Greater Manchester or Lancashire area, I’d ask to think carefully about whether your journey is really necessary, because we do see cases rising across that region,” she said on Friday in a coronavirus briefing. Speaking on the “The Andrew Marr Show” on Sunday, Mr Burnham said: “I was really disappointed on Friday that the first minister of Scotland just announced out of the blue, as far as we were concerned, a travel ban …