Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester undoubtedly represented one of Labour’s brightest moments during the election results that stretched out across the weekend - even if it took Sir Keir Starmer until Monday afternoon to publicly congratulate Andy Burnham on being re-elected with an increased majority.
The question now is what a second Burnham term will actually mean. It’s fair to say that within the system in Greater Manchester, including among some within his own party, there had been plenty of chatter that the first term was insufficiently about delivery - not helped by pretty devastating problems at Greater Manchester Police.
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