Be.EV holds a £5.4 million contract with Transport for Greater Manchester to supply EV infrastructure and energy.
Marie-France “Frankie” van Heel is Andy Burnham’s wife.
We frequently hear Andy Burnham’s supporters talk about what a great success Burnham has been as Greater Manchester’s Mayor. This has led to titles such as “King of the North” and pundits proclaiming Manchester’s rapid economic rise as “Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism,” which they hope he will roll out to the rest of the UK should he become the UK’s Prime Minister.
However, as The Spectator observed, “The idea that Burnham has almost single-handedly turned Greater Manchester into an economic powerhouse against the backdrop of a stagnant Britain is based on numbers that don’t quite add up … a lot of the economic success Burnham now takes credit for were set in motion long before he’d even finished his first term as a minister in the Blair government … But his claims really start to come off the rails when you look at productivity. Burnham’s supporters talk up a Manchester ‘productivity miracle’ but the data underpinning that claim looks a tad dodgy.”
“If Manchester’s growth story is really one of a Potemkin city, then the danger is [if Manchesterism is expanded to wider Britain] we’ll all pay the price for that,” The Spectator concludes....<<<Read More>>>...
