New Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has promised to work with Andy Burnham to ‘deliver change’ on her first official visit.
Ms Rayner, who is also the Minister for Local Government, toured the huge Victoria North development in the north-east of the city centre on Thursday.
The development will build 15,000 homes over the next two decades for 35,000 people — and therefore is a standard bearer for the wave of housebuilding the new Labour government wants to see across the UK.
She also visited the Mustard Tree homeless shelter in Ancoats. READ MORE: Angela Rayner's real life story and her remarkable rise to power “I’m delighted to make my first official visit on home turf,” the Deputy Prime Minister said. “For many years I’ve been campaigning on the big issues affecting our region – homelessness, lack of decent homes for families, better working conditions and wages, and more powers for Greater Manchester so we can be in control of our future. “I’m so proud to come back here knowing we can make those changes a reality.
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