Andy Burnham has said he will continue donating 15% of his salary to local efforts, which he did for nine years as Mayor of Greater Manchester. He said he did so “to tackle homelessness” in Manchester…
Now he says he will this time be “donating to worthy local causes at the heart of our communities.” But only his MP’s salary will go to them…
An MP makes a measly £98,599 compared to the mayoral salary of £118,267. That means communities will receive only £14,789.85 from Andy compared to £17,740.05 they got before – a reduction of almost £3,000. He could announce that he would be donating 15% of his prime ministerial salary too – which would be an uplift…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”