The Mancunian Way: In Liz we Truss?

So now we know who the next Prime Minister will be - how will it affect Greater Manchester? Labour mayor Andy Burnham has offered some predictions, and warnings, to Liz Truss as she prepares to take on the top job.

We’ll be discussing that, as well as changes on the trains and buses and the prospect of a £20 pint in today's newsletter. Let’s get started.

We seem to have reached the ‘dystopian future’ level of this game show we call life. On today’s This Morning, Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were using a giant glittery Spin the Wheel prop to offer viewers the chance to have their energy bills paid.

I’m sure the show’s producers had good intentions. They no doubt thought they were capturing the public mood. But raffling off one of the most basic of human needs - warmth - like a prize pig was perhaps a little tone deaf.

Anyway, hopefully it won’t matter. As she’s told us, Liz Truss has a plan to ease the burden on households this winter. But we’ll have to wait a week to find out what it is. Hopefully she won’t keep it a secret for too much longer. Will she freeze energy bills? We’ll just have to wait and see.

That’s how Liz Truss described her pal Boris Johnson. I wonder if that’s really how he would want to be remembered on his last day as Prime Minister though?

We’ve all got plenty of memories of the outgoing PM. In fact The Northern Agenda team have so many that they’ve handily compiled them into a video, Boris Johnson and the North: A Love Story, which you can watch here.

In it Bury South MP Christian Wakeford - who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to Labour - said the PM's legacy in towns like his was one of ‘failure, of misrepresenting, of broken promises’. But the leader of Bury Conservatives,