Labour MP for Makerfield.
Leigh, Greater Manchester
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Politics isn’t working for places like ours.
I will change that.
#AndyBurnham #ForUs
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Return tickets from Manchester:
▪️India £343
▪️Jamaica £345
▪️Brazil £325
▪️Ivory Coast £319
▪️London (rail) £369
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Mayor of Greater Manchester
Is it just me or does everyone feel like this country is going to the dogs at the mo?
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Feels like we’re on course for a very right-wing government - with zero mandate from the public.
Quite dangerous, if you ask me.
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What can I say other than a massive thanks to you all.
Best job in the world in the best city-region in the world.
I will continue to give it my all for you.
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Anywhere could end up in Tier 3 this winter.
That’s why our fight was always everyone’s fight.
We’re so grateful for the messages of support from across the country. Thank you. 🙏
This is now rightly going before Parliament tomorrow. Please ask your MP to vote for fairness. 👇
The Government's treatment of the North West has been a disgrace. It is treating millions of people with contempt.
Tomorrow Labour will force Parliament to vote for a fair deal for communities facing restrictions.
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I don’t think you’re in a position to pass judgement on who is and isn’t fit to be PM.
Unless Keir Starmer revokes his endorsement of a Corbyn premiership, he is simply not fit to be Prime Minister
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But when we asked you to do that for the lowest-paid people in the North, you refused. People here will remember that.
Following the PM’s announcement on further restrictions across the country we have decided to extended the furlough scheme for a further month covering 80% of employees’ wages.
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Been thinking a lot about this.
Are we really saying we’re all comfortable with giving the highest-paid £50 off their restaurant bills but not giving the lowest-paid any access to statutory sick pay nor help to self-isolate?
Don’t know about you but I’m not.
#EatOutToHelpOut
Delicious lunch at the White Horse in Hascombe - thanks to Paul and Sorrel Morganti and their great team and of course to @RishiSunak! #EatOutToHelpOut
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BBC Breakfast
Only one possible response to #itvdebate …
We need a General Election.
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You’re on the wrong track.
We’re on the way to Manchester.
We’re getting on with the job.
We’re delivering on the people’s priorities.
#CPC21
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Why is it always the wages of people at the bottom that are “unaffordable” and never the wages of people at the top?
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH front page: Planned rise in minimum wage ‘unaffordable’ after pandemic #TomorrowsPapersToday
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My schooldays were ruined by Margaret Thatcher. But I want to be like Margaret Thatcher. 🤷🏻♂️
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How to fix social care?
Provide it on NHS terms.
Free at the point of use. Everyone contributes, everyone’s covered.
Nothing else will work.
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A Prime Minister who has been deemed unfit for office needs to leave straight away, not spin it out until the autumn.
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This is not, repeat NOT, what the daily briefings should be used for. The public need to be given more science and facts, starting with the regional R numbers, not patronising “good news” stories.
"Football is coming back"
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announces "one third of matches to finish the season will now be free to view" and "live Premier League football will be on the BBC for the first time in its history"
Updates: bbc.in/3dlgvkA
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It’s not about what we want for ourselves, @DominicRaab. It’s about what we want for low-paid and self-employed people everywhere: fairness.
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The national service we need from our young people is to vote for change on 4th July. 🗳️
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The patronising “the-North-should-be-grateful-for-what-it’s-given” mentality that’s been on display over the last 24 hours is the primary reason why we have such a large North-South divide in this country.
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Congratulations to all the young people who made their voice heard and can now celebrate getting the results they deserve.
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So that’s the Chief Scientific Adviser joining the Chief Medical Officer and his two deputies in casting doubt on whether Tier 3 will work.
And yet I’m the one putting health at risk?
Sir Patrick Vallance says he wanted a circuit breaker last month and he thinks tier 3 restrictions won't be enough to get rates down.
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It feels increasingly like it’s the living standards of ordinary people being sacrificed in the name of tackling inflation whilst others are left completely free to charge inflated prices and make excessive profits.
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Having watched that today, I can only say one thing:
Let’s all get behind @ZelenskyyUa 💯 ✊🏻
People whose countries haven’t recently experienced the trauma of invasion should not bully nor lecture those who have.
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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Understand the concerns from London-based media & businesses about the impact of Tier 2.
But please remember: GM-based businesses have been under these restrictions for 10 weeks with no support.
This is why we’re fighting so hard. It’s about survival. Cities should join forces.
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When it comes to pay, and its effect on inflation, why does the public debate always focus on the wages of those in the bottom 50% and never on those in the top 50%?
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Yes, I am furious and I don’t mind admitting it. I cannot bear to see young people from working class backgrounds shafted on an industrial scale by an elitist education system more concerned with grade inflation than fairness and social mobility. #LevellingDown
Andy Burnham is absolutely furious about the #examshambles.
On what grounds can you say that a young person who goes to a 6th form college in Greater Manchester gets different treatment from somebody who goes to a private school in Oxfordshire.. it's simply wrong
#BBCBreakfast
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I’m trying to think of the word that best describes today’s Budget and only one does it: immoral.
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Perhaps we could pay rail workers a decent wage if billions hadn’t been shovelled into a bloated privatised railway during the pandemic.
Has the case for rail re-nationalisation ever been clearer?
#RMT
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Millions at risk of hunger, poverty and homelessness.
No functioning government.
Never forget that this is the position in which the Conservative Party placed Britain.
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I struggle to see how Ministers can drop the requirement to wear masks on public transport without causing real problems for some people who are dependent on it.
Those more vulnerable to infection or anxious about it will be put in a very unfair position.
Rethink needed?
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We can’t go on like this.
#GeneralElectionNow
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Do Ministers realise that NHS staff often work beyond their contracted hours for no extra payment?
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So why were low-paid workers in the North only worth 67%?
The sheer injustice of it.
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God, where to start with this?
▪️In March, I was one of the first to call for national lockdown when Ministers were stalling
▪️In May, I opposed the lifting of lockdown as too early for the North
▪️In July, I was the first Mayor to agree to local restrictions
Truth twisters.
You need to speak to your Manchester Mayor @AndyBurnhamGM who has been opposed to intervention measures all the way!
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I see. Staying on for the perks of power but not the work? Sums this fella up.
Boris Johnson misses emergency Cobra meeting on UK heatwave in order to hold party for friends and family at Chequers independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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This should be the last time when other football takes place on the same day as the Women’s World Cup Final.
It is time for the whole footballing world to give the women’s and girls’ game the respect it deserves.
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You haven’t got this quite right Chris.
We asked for £90m - which is the cost of an 80% furlough & self-employed scheme.
We were offered £60m - 66% of our ask, the same that pub staff in Heywood & Middleton are deemed to be worth.
You can vote to change that today. Will you?
Greater Manchester MPs wrote to Andy Burnham today to express our concern about his failure to come to an agreement with the Government. The Mayor now needs to let Local MPs and council leaders have a go at getting a sensible settlement.
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You can’t tell people to “think carefully” before going to pubs and restaurants and then fail to provide any support for the workers/businesses affected.
The Government needs to bring forward a support package TODAY for hospitality, events, music and other affected sectors.
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No doubt about it: @jeremycorbyn head & shoulders above the rest tonight.
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People criticising the wage asks of public sector workers:
You need to remember they’ve had years of real-terms pay cuts going into this.
That’s why their situation is so dire.
If you clapped them two years ago, support them now. It’s more important.
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Honestly Marcus, Greater Manchester could not love you more. You don’t have to justify yourself to anyone here, whatever they write about you. We just have one ask: please keep being who you are and doing what you do. ✊🏻
Just heard @spectator are planning to run a story on me tomorrow about how I have benefitted commercially in the last 18 months…To clarify, I don’t need to partner with brands. I partner because I want to progress the work I do off the pitch and…(1)
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Actually, Lee, it is happening. I donate 15% of my salary every month to the fund I have set up to tackle homelessness.
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The UK has one of the strongest medicines and vaccines regulatory systems in the world.
I can say that with confidence as a former Health Secretary.
So, please, don’t believe the scare stories.
If the @MHRAgovuk says it is safe, it IS safe.
UK regulators have approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use
But, what is the MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and how did they decide the vaccine was safe?
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I didn’t think I’d ever see a worse piece of political messaging than “Eat Out To Help Out”.
But “Freedom Day” might have just topped it.
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Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole of its bus network. 🙌🏻
ALT The first yellow Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange in the early hours of this morning.
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Something’s very wrong with this country right now.
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Wrong move at the wrong time.
It can’t be one rule for the rich and another for the rest.
The Government has announced that senior executives can temporarily leave quarantine in England if they are undertaking business activities which will bring 'significant economic benefit' to the economy.
For more on this and other news visit news.sky.com
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After 35 years of deregulated buses in Greater Manchester ...
35 years of rising fares and routes being cut ...
We are bringing our buses back under public control. 👍🏻
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Everything that’s wrong with Westminster in one headline.👇🏻
Tory chiefs 'threatened to scrap new school' if MP backed Marcus Rashford campaign
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I have fought for the ability to support low-paid people and businesses who will be most harmed by Tier 3 closures. Simple as that. Please don’t misrepresent my position.
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Honestly, can barely believe what I’m reading here. 👇
Why on earth was this not put on the table on Tuesday to reach an agreement with us?
I said directly to the PM that a deal was there to be done if it took into account the effects on GM businesses of three months in Tier 2.
Rishi Sunak has announced that cash grants of up to £2,100 will be made available to companies hit by Tier 2 restrictions - and this will be *retrospective*
ie it will help Manchester and the North-east, contrary to complaints by Burnham et al
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What can I say other than a huge thank you and that I’m overwhelmed by your support.
I love this job, the people of this city-region and I promise you this third term will be the best yet for Greater Manchester.
I will do my best for everyone, whether you voted for me or not.
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Last orders for the North.
What a disgraceful, disrespectful headline when people here are worried about their jobs & businesses.
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So it turned up! 😅
The first ever @BeeNetwork service arrives at Farnworth Bus Station at 4.30am.
Greater Manchester is back in control of its buses. 👍🏻
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Any sign of the train companies being required by law to provide a minimum level of service on any day? 🤷🏻♂️
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Said I wasn’t going to comment but now feel compelled to do so on the back of this Government briefing.
At no point during tonight’s briefing was this news communicated to us. Media told first once again. Our position has not changed.
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Based on what we’ve heard so far, this country will be making a dangerous lurch to the right at the end of the Tory leadership election.
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I would be prepared to accept the abolition of Inheritance Tax on condition that we tax the wealthy properly while they are alive.
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Get well soon & thanks for what you have been doing to help the country fight this.
Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.
I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus.
Together we will beat this. #StayHomeSaveLives
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The very same curbs put business in despair across the North but why only now is it headline news?
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Amazing to think that these lads were in charge of our health and education in the pandemic.🤦🏻♂️
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It’s becoming clear that, under this Government, UK employment law is not worth the paper it’s written on.
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Heart missed a beat there ... but - panic over - we’re safe.
Join me tomorrow night in Manchester, New Hampshire at 7:00 P.M. Eastern! #KAG2020 donaldjtrump.com/events/aug-…
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I see we’ve hit the mad-ideas-that-are-never-going-to-happen stage of the Tory leadership election.
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Today will be difficult for everyone in Greater Manchester.
But we all know that every day since 22/5/2017 has been difficult for the families of those we lost and those injured.
We think about you and will be always be there for you.
❤️🐝
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Some free advice for the Government: do the U-turn today.
#NHSPay
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I’ve lost count of the number of Tory Ministers who accused me of “playing politics” and “posturing”.
But now it emerges that SAGE were recommending to the same Ministers exactly what I said GM and the North needed.
I hope people can see now why I fought in the way that I did.
Andy Burnham furious as it emerges SAGE called for help for north - 4 months ago
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I’d have more sympathy for the words “get on with the job” if the job - ie levelling up - had actually started in the first place.
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I remember @reid6peter warning that this would happen. But it’s still quite shocking to see the dark arts at work.
Just ignore it, Marcus. You don’t have to justify yourself to anyone. If anything, it only makes us even more proud of you for having the courage to step forward.
Ok, so let’s address this. I’m 23. I came from little. I need to protect not just my future but my family’s too. To do that I made a decision at the beg of 2020 to start investing more in property. Please don’t run stories like this alongside refs to ‘campaigning’.
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Or a SAGE report in September.
Nadine Dorries says only 'a crystal ball' could have predicted the need for second lockdown independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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After 17 years of stress and hassle, we have just done our final school run.
I don’t know whether to be happy or sad, to laugh or cry.
Thank you from us all to the brilliant head, teachers and support staff at the wonderful institution that is Eddies @SEACHS1961.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥲😢
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Cutting public services at a time when people can’t afford to eat properly and keep warm is downright dangerous.
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Today I will confirm the names of the operators who will run the first bus services in England to be brought back under public control since deregulation in 1986.
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Ah yes, was waiting for this - blame the teachers, not the discriminatory system.
This is the front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Teachers handed out 'implausibly high' predicted grades, says exams regulator'
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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