i know mayor of manchester, andy burnham won't do it forever. i will never. gary neville tilt i think. good luck to him. i will never take a polemic partyjob. i'll be straight. my mental health is not robust enough to deal with it and i wouldn't put my family through it. you've referred quite a few times to a your mental health, but also it being hard at times. it being hard at times in the last few weeks. as you said earlier, you both challenged the government and said they weren't doing enough. you were very overt in the challenge you made to the energy companies. and then when the chancellor embraced quite a few of your ideas, you praised him, too. have you been on a roller—coaster? one minute, cheered along as you attack the tories and the next minute attack for selling out to the tories. i never attacked the tories. i attacked the policies of the government. no, i was paraphrasing what people might say to you, but it is important. i don'tjudge on party. ijudge on policy. the thing with the chancellor, i spoke to him a few days before he made his announcement. i think