Mr Burnham has learnt to speak fluent Johnsonese. Here’s how
Delegates to the Conservative Party conference, which kicks off on October 3rd, will be able to admire the middle of Manchester, which has been transformed over the past few decades from a post-industrial barrens to a grove of residential towers and offices. But Mr Burnham prefers to talk about a town of under 50,000 people 8km north of the city centre. He went to Middleton almost immediately after winning re-election in May, and it is a focus of his economic policy.
But Manchester’s salience is not as assured as it used to be. George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer from 2010 to 2016, saw the metropolis as the main engine of economic development in northern England. The bigger it grew, and the more its economic tentacles reached across the north, the better. Mr Osborne particularly admired Howard Bernstein, then chief executive of the city of Manchester, whom he called “that brilliant star of city government”.
Aware that cities remain Labour strongholds, his government has developed an anti-urban streak. Ministers bash the metropolitan elite and spar with its leading lights, including Mr Burnham and Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor. Last October the government forced Manchester into a lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19, refusing to pay what the mayor claimed the metropolis was owed in compensation. If the aim was to humble Mr Burnham, it failed utterly.
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