With voting in the race to be Labour’s New Deputy leader now open, Manchester MP Lucy Powell has said that she embraces Manchesterism
In an interview with the New Statesman Magazine she said
“There’s definitely a form of Manchesterism that I would adopt. You can change people’s lives when you have a clear and long-term plan for inclusive growth built on access to good skills, to decent housing and to affordable housing… I think it predates Andy a bit,”
Andy Burnham had used the phrase in his interview with the magazine two weeks ago and Powell had praise for Andy Burnham as well
“He does reach parts of the country, parts of the electorate that we struggle to reach. We need to embrace Andy and others to really show the best of ourselves”.
She said that she was in favour of electoral reform telling the magazine she has “always supported the principles of a fairer electoral system” and backed the Alternative Vote campaign in 2011.
And in a pledge to her supporters “I’ll be at the top of the party; I’ll be part of lots of formal arrangements,”
