Judith Moritz
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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So there's definitely a relationship between those two points, those two experiences for him.
Well, because, and this is where I think the phrase King of the North got coined by some of the papers.
He was seen to be standing up, I think, in Manchester for the welfare of the North.
It was a sort of North-South Manchester, London sort of,
you know, sense that there was an imbalance of support.
You remember all the different tiers, going back now six years to the world of COVID, which feels like a different lifetime.
But when there were different tiers in different places and what had happened is there was a particular moment here, I think, that you can pin it down to, where he was standing giving a press conference.
He was outside the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and
And he'd been arguing for better financial support for the folk up here in Manchester.
And he was passed a mobile phone during the course of the press conference.
and was shown that the amount of money that the government was prepared to pay to support folk in Manchester, I think it was £22 million, I don't want to quote this incorrectly, but it wasn't the right amount.
It was far, in Andy Burnham's eyes, far sufficient for what it should be.
And he railed against it.
It was a kind of David versus Goliath moment, I think.
But it's also where he was cemented in the national mind as a figure.
Because, you know, years have passed now from when Burnham was in the cabinet and had national profile.
We have Manchester Arena.
But if you were, I suppose, sitting in Watford on a Neaton and you were asked about Andy Burnham in perhaps 2018, 2019, I'm not sure how much you'd have known.
It was watching him again on those news bulletins around the time of COVID when he was shouting for better parity, for parity for financial support.
That, I think, brought him back into the national mind, probably.
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