Andy Burnham considers legal action over ticket office closures
‘This seems to be the way this country is run at the moment. No one follows the rules, but we’re going to fight back’
‘This seems to be the way this country is run at the moment. No one follows the rules, but we’re going to fight back’
‘This is really wrong on so many levels, but we’re going to take a stand.’
‘I think we need to change the House of Commons as well, I think we need voting reform.’
‘The impact of devolution on our life expectancy is better than expected’
‘The First Past the Post system hands more power to the establishment than MPs or people.’
“I want to make an Easter appeal to the many decent people in all of our main parties: please pull the next election campaign back from the brink.”
Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Carla Denyer and Mick Lynch are among those to back the call
The Manchester mayor joined council leaders in making a case to the government to approach levelling up like Germany, which gives all regions the funding they need to close divides in living standards.
Calling for a ‘rewiring of Britain’, he said: “‘The reason we’ve got such an unequal country is because power is very unequally held and used in the UK. That’s why I say we have to rewire the country so that power flows around all places.”
“Everybody needs the basics, everybody needs to be able to afford the basics”.