I’ll give it my all – newly-elected Greater Manchester mayor Burnham
Former Cabinet minister Andy Burnham has been elected Greater Manchester’s first metropolitan mayor with control over a £900m budget with responsibility for police, fire, housing and transport, with a sweeping 63% win.
Only 28.93% of people eligible to vote – low turnouts are common in local elections – in the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside Trafford, and Wigan.
Burnham, 47, who was MP for Leigh from 2001 until he stepped down to contest the mayora... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
