“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“Just devolve to us how we do it. We know the organisations here and the ones who will succeed."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'We do now need to re-think Right to Buy'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Mayor condemned the Westminster system for hoarding power at the centre which ‘gives as little power away as possible’.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate