Picture caption: Manchester, Empire of the Pound/Steve Hanson.
Andy Burnham has a look of Tommy Carcetti, the fictional mayor in the celebrated HBO TV series The Wire, played by Aidan Gillen.
Manchester is not a 'radical city', Salford is - of housing, Labour, and neoliberal bastions
As the Corbynistas besiege the New Labour diehards, as in other Labour-run councils, the main battleground is housing. Meanwhile, Salford is pursuing a genuinely radical path.
By
Steve Hanson
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