Andy Burnham is talking up his legacy in Manchester - but how much is the success down to him? And do people in Makerfield feel the benefit?

There was a fall in the value of sterling when it emerged Andy Burnham was on track to replace the British PM.

Burnham’s supporters talk up a Manchester ‘productivity miracle’ but the data underpinning that claim looks a tad dodgy.

As Andy Burnham is declared the winner of the Makerfield by-election, all eyes are on the 'King of the North' who vows to 'lead by example from the front'. But who is the former…

Andy Burnham is talking up his legacy in Manchester - but how much is the success down to him? And do people in Makerfield feel the benefit?

Credit where it’s due; Burnham’s shape-shifting has been brilliantly shameless.

With Keir Starmer under fire, it is Manchester’s mayor who looks to be the key challenger.

When the Labour party football team played a group of journalists at Loftus Road two years ago the hacks won 4-1. The politicians’ solitary goal came from a late penalty. When the…