andy burnham is a popular figure and he will buy 67% of the last mayoral election.cial measures and is now out of special measures and andy burnham will say that due to him but his opponents would say well actually, it happened during your watch. and also the clean air zone which is the equivalent of euler lives in london, it has been postponed the moment but has caused a lot of anger and upset for drivers in greater manchester. however, is probably fair to say anything the opponents would probably agree that it would be very unlikely for either andy burnham or steve rotherham to lose their seats. they are both up against liberal democrats, conservatives, the greens and independents and in greater manchester, there is also a reform candidate. he was standing as a conservative candidate at the beginning of the elections but he defected to reform saying he didn't believe the conservatives were standing up for the north any more and just quickly, we also have up many elections. we have a by—election in blackpool south after the resignation of scott benton, the former c

he is— has been labour's andy burnham so farand he is keen to has been labour's andy burnham so far carry on. last time, he got 67% of the vote, the conservatives got 20% and everyone else was _ conservatives got 20% and everyone else was quite behind. his opponents have been_ else was quite behind. his opponents have been attacking him particularly over his _ have been attacking him particularly over his -- — have been attacking him particularly over his —— his record of handling greater_ over his —— his record of handling greater manchester police, the force has gone _ greater manchester police, the force has gone into special measures on his watch, — has gone into special measures on his watch, but it is out now and improving _ his watch, but it is out now and improving. the other candidates are also questioning the viability of his flagship policy to take the bus network_ his flagship policy to take the bus network back under public control for the _ network back under public control for the first time in 40 years. he is the _ for the first time in 40 years. he is the first— for

he said there'd be no equivalent response when manchester mayor andy burnham called for an immediatefire. but burnham could be could be a muslim name. it could be one of the isis guys like burnham in a cage. that could be something that's. but yeah, sadiq khan said, what motivated them to come out in the way they did against the mayor of london and the mayor of greater manchester? i'll give you a clue. he's he's not called ahmed budhrani, he's called andy burnham, whereas i'm called sadiq khan, we'll give it give it a few. give it a decade or two and it will probably be called ahmed barrani with the demographic shift we're seeing, but yeah, he's at the issue this apology to the chief rabbi who, you know, he accused. >> i mean, it's really outrageous, isn't it? just all this mind reading thing like that, you see it a lot now, like, i take issue with something you've said and therefore i'm going to assume intuit some kind of pernicious motive . that's what's happened motive. that's what's happened here. it was an incredibly unfair accusation against the chief rabbi. i think they also w

andy burnham you see it, but we come back to it, but the but we come back to this, the labour party putome constitutional changes reflected and, in changes which reflected and, in the end, dispersal of power away from government , away from the from government, away from the executive. it removed power from, from, from the house of lords getting rid of the, of the, inherited peerage of by the, the inherited peerage of by and large and dispersing power away from westminster is probably a good idea . whereas it probably a good idea. whereas it seems to me liz truss is saying the reason the tory government is unable to achieve change is because it doesn't have enough power now. well you pointed out correctly, they do not have a coherent political project. brexit wasn't even a coherent political project. brexit was a response by david cameron to a failure to agree about the future of britain, in europe or outside europe, the inability of the government to govern i, i, i often, i often find myself, listening to liz because i think she does try to make an argument for a different kind of cons

another question which raised question which has been raised is about andy burnham's role in all of this the mayor of manchester. he is friends with angela rayner and as mayor of manchester, he has the power to hire and fire the chief constable, nadine dorries. former mp nadine dorries has said that there could be a bit of a conflict of interest there, something that andy burnham vehemently denies. he says the police has full operational control. there's lots of questions swirling around this at the moment and as yet we don't have many answers. but i think that it's not surprising that rishi sunak and the conservatives have a bit of a spnng conservatives have a bit of a spring in their step at the moment. >> very interesting indeed. olivia, 12 or so police officers working on this case. it indicates this could be quite serious. at least they're taking it very seriously. one might ask whether it's good use of that whether it's a good use of that many officers times, but many police officers times, but i'll at be the i'll let people at home be the judge that, local elections judge of that,

but i'm sure andy burnham, who's friends with her, is going to get to that and oversees the policings going to get straight bottom this. straight to the bottom of this. >> know i, i like >> but you know what, i, i like that she's done all of this because it means she's possibly going a very good, going to have a very good, financially prudent administration, takes administration, which takes advantage of all the loopholes in opportunity. advantage of all the loopholes in absolutely.1ity. i think advantage of all the loopholes in absolutely.1ity. ithink , advantage of all the loopholes in absolutely.1ity. i think , you >> absolutely. and i think, you know, once realises once know, once she realises once she's herself and she she's true to herself and she moves over to the tory party, she's going to be fantastic . she's going to be fantastic. we've got the times now with kemi on the kemi badenoch taking on the cult of diversity, equity and inclusion. of diversity, equity and inclusloill is. this is kemi >> yes, it is. this is kemi who's my favourite name. kemi badenoch , which is, she

. >> yeah so labour mayor andy burnham and his tory counterpart ben have united against ben houchen havecrap fa controversial plans to scrap fa cup replays. so this is the fa's blaming the new format of the champions league, which will cause changes to the calendar. so it's doing away with these replays, but it's feared the lack will be hugely lack of replays will be hugely damaging clubs lower down damaging for clubs lower down the football pyramid, particularly outside the particularly those outside the football get football league. so you get these playing big these small clubs playing big clubs lots of clubs and they make lots of money from i've got no idea money from it. i've got no idea what replay is honest. what a replay is to be honest. >> they play another >> it's why they play another match after the first match to decide the tie, because why would because if would they do that? because if there a tie and football is there was a tie and football is one great games where one of those great games where you play an entire you can actually play an entire game no one wins. and so g

still, i'm sure burnham, who's sure andy burnham, who's responsible for policing in manchester, wille they manchester, will make sure they investigate is full and thorough. here he is having some dnnks thorough. here he is having some drinks with with the person who's being investigated. in other news, marks and spencer's revealed that it's investing £1 million in tackling methane from farting cows . i know that £1 farting cows. i know that £1 million sounds like a lot of money, but for marks and spencer's, that's just five items from their food hall. a post office boss was criticised for comments made , but for comments he'd made, but maybe something was lost in the delivery. does that get your stamp of approval? andrew so alan bates says he might take the battle to a courtroom showdown . it's surely got to be showdown. it's surely got to be called the thrilla in manilla envelopes . called the thrilla in manilla envelopes. i'm very sorry for these. the royal navy says that recruits will no longer have to be able to swim . it's a bit be able to swim. it's a bit worrying if russia inv

the infamous former first minister sturgeon minister nicola sturgeon and also manchester mayor andy burnham. news with sophia wenzler. >> nana. thank you. it's 431. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. mark menzies has announced his resignation from the tory party, saying he won't be standing at the next election. the fylde mp was suspended following claims he used political donations to cover medical expenses and pay off bad people who had locked him in a flat. he disputes the allegations . following an allegations. following an investigation, the conservative party says it can't conclude there was a misuse of funds, but said there was a pattern of behaviour that falls below the standards expected of mps. british jewish leaders will meet the metropolitan police commissioner later this week after accusing the force of a series of high profile errors. sir mark rowley is facing calls to quit over his handling of pro—palestinian protests, with the former home secretary also suggesting he's emboldened anti—semites. the board of depufies anti—semites. the board of deputies of british jews says

andy burnham for the labour party, laura evans for the conservative party, jake austin for the liberalndependent now. >> still to come , athletes could >> still to come, athletes could get prize money at the olympics for the first time at this summer's games in paris. what do you make that? we'll be you make of that? we'll be talking about it next the talking about it next in the papers. >> let's have a look at the papers this morning with former special adviser to michael gove. charlie rowley. former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire . good adviser scarlett mccgwire. good morning to you both. we're just going to have a quick. we're splitting things up a little bit. charlie, can we bit. so charlie, just can we have a quick look at the guardian and hate crime reports? most of which the police most of which says, the police are not authentic. >> yes. so this is on the back of the scottish parliament passing a new legislation, crime and public order bill, which was supposedly to protect things like hate crime against minority groups, but particularly , groups, but particularly, following s

we now and andy burnham, the mayor of manchester, is standing staying outside of all this.e and stephen watson tell the watson trying to tell the country we will do a good job here. a dozen officers show that serious and it will go on, i think until the eve of the election probably in time scale. >> christopher, you >> oh, christopher, thank you very our political very much. that is our political ednon very much. that is our political editor, christopher hope there pulling us pulling the late shift for us this great look. in a this evening. great look. in a statement, angela has statement, angela rayner has said, repeatedly said said, i have repeatedly said i would chance to sit would welcome the chance to sit down the appropriate down with the appropriate authorities, down with the appropriate autr hmrc , to down with the appropriate autihmrc , to set out the facts and hmrc, to set out the facts and hmrc, to set out the facts and draw a line under this matter. completely matter. i am completely confident i followed all the rules times. i've always rules at all times. i've

i mean, now boris johnson, khan, johnson, sadiq khan, andy burnham, whole load of people burnham, a wholee something and could have done something and bons could have done something and boris could have boris johnson could have done something they're something about it. and they're all campaign all getting behind this campaign now, saying, now, which is great. and saying, yes, compensation . varne. yes, pay compensation. varne. >> scandal. i think >> it's a scandal. i think there's 100 odd >> it's a scandal. i think there's100 odd mps that are going sign this, motion. going to sign this, this motion. but about, yeah, but again, you talk about, yeah, 180 but we're in this 180 again, but we're in this position where we knew about the post office years ago. we knew about this blood scandal years ago. similar ago. grenfell were in a similar situation we where it's situation where we where it's just endlessly kicked into the long no long grass. there's no resolution. there's appeal after appeal. there's report after report. of the report. we have all of the information and yet we don't have no