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...This announcement is a pretty insulting reminder that the transformative, long-term investment we were promised is instead being parcelled out everywhere else under the banner of Network North,” said Andy Burnham...
...Former Tory chancellor George Osborne, a supporter of HS2, said on his podcast recently that new railways could not be conjured up overnight....
...Today Andy Burnham, Manchester’s Labour mayor, and Ben Houchen, Tory mayor of Tees Valley, are significant public figures and figureheads for their regions....
...Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor appointed by ex-Tory chancellor George Osborne, gave his endorsement to Reeves in a video message on Monday....
...He also attacked Bush Sr’s threat to withdraw US loan guarantees if Israel went ahead with settlements in the occupied territories....
...Greater Manchester has also proposed a zone but mayor Andy Burnham was inundated by complaints from angry residents who dubbed it “Burnham’s van tax”....
...When Greater Manchester’s leaders were negotiating their trendsetting 2014 devolution deal with the government (in a “levelling up” enterprise dreamt up long before the term was coined), then-chancellor George...
...Other Israeli leaders have clashed with the White House before: Ronald Reagan accused Menachem Begin of a “holocaust” after Israel bombed Beirut in August 1982; George Bush Sr had to withhold $10bn in loan...
...Among these, George HW Bush, John Adams, Jimmy Carter and John Kennedy stand out....
...George Osborne, a former Tory chancellor who was one of the main driving forces behind the project, described any move by the government to abandon the northern section of HS2 as a “tragedy”....
...And of course, that’s exactly the kind of narrative that politicians like Andy Burnham feed on. Lucy FisherYes....
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...I was with [West Midlands mayor] Andy Street and [Greater Manchester] Andy Burnham yesterday, and I’m very jealous. Andy Burnham’s analysis of parliament is almost identical to mine....
...Now try this I’m very grateful to George Parker for letting me cadge a lift back to London after the trains from Bournemouth were delayed....
...Andy Burnham, the moderate mayor for Greater Manchester, questioned whether that decision was “democratic, transparent and fair”....
...RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House. The most his son could probably expect is to become an icon of the delusions of his time....
...The initial idea would be to work with the country’s two “trailblazer” mayoral authorities: Street’s West Midlands and the Greater Manchester region run by Labour’s Andy Burnham....
...Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Manchester, told the Financial Times: “We should keep the income tax position as it was, let corporation tax go up and keep the 45p rate as well.”...
...Enter George Clooney. In 2013, Clooney and a friend, who both had homes in Mexico, decided to launch a tequila brand. Presumably, they’d seen the success of Patrón....
...A year later he is cancer-free and installed by bookmakers as second favourite to be Labour’s next leader, behind Manchester mayor Andy Burnham....
...I worked for President George W. Bush. 2001 to 2003, we had our energy price and our oil price scares as well. We used to joke, Bob, go get the magic wand to make oil prices go down....
...Instead, Labour figures including Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham have changed tack and tried to improve relations with the new levelling up secretary Michael Gove....
...The Labour party fears the government will be reluctant to hand new powers to the likes of Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester mayor, and that the devolution agenda has stalled....
...And I don’t think Andy Burnham’s popularity is going to hurt Conservatives in places like Hazel Grove....
...Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, will receive £1.07bn — the figure he asked for — towards upgrades....
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