BIG NEWS On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years. A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations. 🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns 🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator 🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6% 1/2

For the whole of November, we are lifting the 9.30 rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes. We are doing whatever we can to help people with cost-of-living pressures and make life a little easier. 🐝

"Sends the wrong message to commuters, residents, and crucially to bike thieves": Andy Burnham "deeply concerned" and urges British Transport Police to reconsider controversial bike theft policy road.cc/content/news...

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has launched a second trial of 24/7 free bus travel for older and disabled people across the city. @andyburnham.bsky.social publictransport.news/bus/greater-...

We are always looking at what things we can do, big and small, to make life better for our residents. Here is the latest wave of improvements coming to GM. 🧵 1/7

Public services should be delivered “through places and people that are trusted” and not in a “top-down, soulless” way, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said #publicservices #government #theos #theoslecture #churchnews

Wonderful to meet with Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham today to discuss wealth inequality and how we can effectively tax wealth to address it. Huge thanks to the team involved. @mayorofgm.bsky.social @stephenstroud.bsky.social

In case you missed it ... Here's an audio link to a very good Remain speech that Andy Burnham gave during the Brexit ref in Liverpool back in 2016. Well worth a listen! A lot of his predictions about Brexit came true. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Andy Burnham tears into Reform UK for suggesting that they would scrap Northern Powerhouse Rail, focusing on a London-centric approach

Great to hear from Andy Burnham, @mayorofgm.bsky.social, on the VCSE sector's crucial role, highlighting that good housing is vital for people’s health and creating a ‘live well’ approach at his speech during @thekingsfund.bsky.social conf on the 10-year plan for healthcare in England.

Labour must hear and heed the voice of its Mainstream. We're honoured to have Mayor of Manchester @andyburnham.bsky.social join us to help unlock the transformative potential of the Labour Party. More here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/about

@samwhyte.bsky.social great listen as always. Not sure if it's paywall but here's an article from 1997 in @wsc.co.uk about Peter John son's proposals for a new ground by..... Andy Burnham. www.wsc.co.uk/book-reviews...

We are proud of what GM has achieved in the first decade of devolution.👇🏻 But we’ve had to fight for it and every scrap of investment. Imagine what more the North could be if backed with the same investment in infrastructure as others parts of the UK! 🤔

Read @andyburnham.bsky.social & Lord Jim O’Neill on Manchester - the productivity growth capital of Britain by @rjpartington.bsky.social

We’re proud of the achievements of all our young people. 👏🏻 To help with the next stage of the journey, we’re launching a half-price monthly bus pass for 18 to 21 year-olds from 1 September. 🐝 So aim high and get ready to go as far as you can! 💪🏻

At our event on public investment earlier this year, Andy Burnham described the housing crisis as Britain's 'single biggest problem' ⬇️

For the next four weeks, we are lifting the 9.30am rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes. We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent. Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻

Timely catch-up with the Hillsborough Law Now campaign with @metromayorsteve.bsky.social. Incredible to see how it has grown with so many people from different walks of life now behind it. The message was clear: our resolve to fight for the full Hillsborough Law is only strengthening. 💪🏻

The best way to save billions from the benefits system? Launch the biggest council home building programme the UK has seen since the post-war years.👇🏻

GM is growing fast. We will expand @BeeNetwork over the next decade to meet the needs of our bigger economy. BUT There’s a limit to what we can do on a congested surface. It’s why I am asking TfGM to start planning for an underground for GM around a remodelled Piccadilly.

The truth about UK nuclear veterans has been 'covered up', Andy Burnham tells #Newsnight www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The Government needs to take a more unifying path... there is genuine, deep anxiety about these proposals." Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham urges the Government to listen to Labour MPs who oppose proposed welfare cuts. #Newsnight

Truth about UK nuclear veterans 'covered up', says Andy Burnham www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well done Lee Carsley and his team. Tactical masterclass! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

An honour to attend and to be able to tell Pep in person just how much we appreciate his loyalty and incredible contribution to City and our city-region. 🙏🏻

My salary donation for May supporting our #BedEveryNight scheme.👇🏻 Please donate here if you can > www.gmmayorscharity.org.uk 🙏🏻

📈 Andy Burnham will use £10 million from his combined authority’s coffers to double the value of a special government grant to boost post-16 student capacity next year feweek.co.uk/burnham-boos...

'A gamechanging moment' for Greater Manchester's Bee Network

🔥 HUGE NEWS! In a powerful convergence of music, activism, and leadership, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, @andyburnham.bsky.social, and the British trip hop collective Massive Attack signed a declaration and opened a Treaty banner on the rooftop on this #WorldEnvironmentDay2025.

BIG news for the @BeeNetwork! The Government is backing it with £2.5 billion to become the UK’s first fully-integrated, all-electric public transport system by 2030. 🐝

Our huge event, 'CHANGE: HOW? A Decade of Radical Renewal', is happening on SATURDAY! @andyburnham.bsky.social, @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, Mark Drakeford and Lou Haigh - as well as more than 30 others - are coming together to discuss how Labour can achieve 'national renewal'!

Victims of the infected blood scandal have been ‘left in the dark’ about when they will receive compensation, ex-health secretary Andy Burnham has said

We know every day is difficult for all those whose lives changed forever eight years ago - but this one particularly so. Today we remember, send our love to you all and recommit our unending support.

To mark becoming Re:State, today we've published a collection of short essays by leading thinkers, all making the case for bold action to remake the State What an honour to have this incredible line up involved READ the collection here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

FREE TO READ: Our interview with Andy Burnham (@andyburnham.bsky.social), in which the Greater Manchester Mayor talks about devolution, housing, the need for ideological confidence, and why Westminster should abolish the whiping system renewal.org.uk/articles/int...

We are excited to annouce that *Renewal - a journal of social democracy* has relaunched with a new publisher, a new editorial team, and a newly-revamped website. Our relaunch issue is now available here to both new and existing subscribers: renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

We can’t keep paying for the NHS by cutting everything that might prevent people needing to use it in the first place.👇🏻 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The improvements to transport in GM keep on coming. 🐝 Irlam Station now has new lifts and step-free access. 👍🏻 Over the next three years, eight more will be made fully accessible: Swinton, Hindley, Bryn, Reddish North, Levenshulme, Bredbury, Newton for Hyde and Flowery Field.

Thank you @andyburnham.bsky.social for standing with our nuclear test veterans 🙏 Superb work by @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social & @mirror.co.uk in exposing one of the greatest injustices & worst cover-ups in British history 👏

We need a more devolved approach to health Greater Manchester is ready to demonstrate that it can work, writes @andyburnham.bsky.social

Heading home early to host ⚽️ & raise money for Salford Lads Club 💚🧡 Starts at 2pm at AFC Monton Mike Sweeney has Paul Scholes, Mayor Andy Burnham has been Peter Reid Free entry & I might even give you a song or 2 ❤️

A privilege to be with Andrew and Lisa for the launch of this compelling new book about their beautiful daughter. David Collins has done Saffie and the Roussos family truly proud.🙏🏻

Our last time together in the place where we’ve stood/sat for over 40 years. 🥹💙 #GoodbyeGoodison

I will continue to support FFJ and urge my colleagues to support the amendment being brought forward to the Football Governance Bill to give the regulator powers to impose a statutory duty on the football authorities to develop a comprehensive dementia strategy. www.familiesforjustice.co.uk

It is also vital that we ensure that current and future footballers are protected from this increased risk.

The lack of support being given by footballing authorities to former players - who are are diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases at rates four to five times higher than the national average - is truly shocking.

I want to pay tribute to the families led by John Stiles who has done an incredible job in bring this issue to public attention. @andyburnham.bsky.social and Steve Rotherham have also helped champion the cause, bringing this issue to Parliament.

It was an absolute honour to host Football Families for Justice in Parliament last night. We were joined by absolute legends of the game including Sir Geoff Hurst and Kevin Keegan.

The North West's Metro Mayors were in parliament today urging the Government to invest in a new railway between Manchester and Liverpool @metromayorsteve.bsky.social and @andyburnham.bsky.social say it's the missing piece in their plan for the "Northern Arc" - a growth corridor across the North.

Great to hear @andyburnham.bsky.social talking about the creation of a ‘Northern Arc’ at the @resfoundation.bsky.social today. All part of a big opportunity to rebalance the country and boost growth at the Spending Review? For more ideas and analysis on this theme - see our report below. 👇