“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
The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has backed the government’s plans to give 16 year olds the right to vote, after fears that the policy had been side-lined. Labour had included in its manifesto a| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate