The new kids on the block

摘要

As the dust settles after some hard-fought mayoral campaigns in six regions across the country, the victors have begun to retrain their sights on the challenge ahead. National attention will largely be focused on developments in Greater Manchester, a region that is a decade ahead in terms of devolution. And the region's new figurehead is no newcomer. A health secretary under Gordon Brown and a Labour leadership contender against Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, Andy Burnham has since managed to carve himself out as a 'non-Westminster/ Westminster politician'.