Five years into his job, the mayor of Greater Manchester is calling for a radical reinvention of the political system. He talks about his big ideas, confronting self-doubt – and the chances of him running for the Labour leadership
Andy Burnham
He was at the Left Field to take part in a daytime debate session titled Politics in Crisis – and he turned up with a mini-manifesto.
“Business as usual isn’t going to get us where we need to get to. Not just from a political point of view, but in terms of where the country is. I think it’s in a really dangerous place. People are frightened, I think, about what the future holds: they’ve got the kind of fear that I don’t think we’ve ever had in our lifetimes. And there’s a growing feeling that politics hasn’t been equal to this stuff. Politics is trading in minor, minor things.
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