Jen Williams

has in practice been done by civil servants when he has gone and made speeches in his capacity as mayor talking about Manchester and Greater Manchester.

And so those speeches have then doubled up as a bit of a nod and a wink, certainly to the soft left of the Labour Party.

I think that needs to be fleshed out.

And at the moment, I'm not entirely convinced what that means as a platform for government.

So, yeah, it is a cop-out, but maybe in future weeks I can take a slightly riskier decision on it.