Josh Halliday

The jacket that he wore was hung in a museum.

It was.

I don't know if it's still there.

They didn't clean it before they put it up for display either because they wanted to keep... They call it evidential soiling.

My sense is that people are quite proud to have Andy Burnham as the mayor.

Part of the role is that you don't have every single power or unlimited money at your disposal, but what you do, what you are is a figurehead.

And I think he's done that part of the job very well.

One of the big things of his term as Greater Manchester Mayor has been bringing different political parties together to get things done.

The biggest example of this is working with the Conservative government in order to bring more devolved powers for the regions.

He's spoken about this political pragmatism, politics that's about place rather than point scoring.

I think he learned quite a lot from Michael Bloomberg, who was one of the former mayor of New York.

Right.

working with different political parties to get things done.

And Andy Burnham, I think, has tried to put aside these political differences to, you know, deliver benefits for his area.

His big criticism, I have to say, of his time as mayor is the introduction of the clean air zone, which is where high polluting cars would be charged up to 60 quid a day, the owners of them, which was, you know, his huge scheme.

There were hundreds of signs and cameras went up across Greater Manchester, you know, sort of 10 years or so ago.

And, you know, there was a massive public backlash there.

and he sort of bottled it and didn't follow through, completely scrapped the scheme.

And, you know, apparently it cost about £100 million in order to set this thing up.

I mean, he says that that money wasn't wasted because it went into the electrification of buses, you know, the rollout of the B network.