Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Four years after launching his first mayoral manifesto at the Sharp Project in Newton Heath, Andy Burnham was this morning turning the clock forward again.
The last event had looked and felt starkly different, featuring a choral performance, a full-volume Madchester soundtrack and a packed audience of supporters.
Today, in a pandemic world not yet fully open, the launch was low-key, to a small group of socially distanced journalists at the Ducie Warehouse in Piccadilly. “A lot has happened since then,” he told them of the years that have elapsed since Greater Manchester voters gave him ‘the greatest honour and privilege of my life in making me elected mayor
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