The Mancunian Way: My rate? £6k a day

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Hello,

I hope you all had a pleasant weekend. It was lovely to get that extra hour of daylight yesterday. Especially as we wait for the plants and flowers to spring into life.

In today’s newsletter, we’ll be talking about what Greater Manchester Police is doing to improve outcomes for survivors and root out bad apples. We’ll also be looking at the town set for a massive expansion where residents say they just want a good night’s sleep.

But first, I want to talk about the Greater Manchester MP caught in an embarrassing sting.

He’s one of the most powerful MPs in Westminster - but he'll soon be leaving Parliament. And it seems Sir Graham Brady is already looking at his future job prospects.

The Altrincham and Sale West MP, who also chairs the powerful 1922 Committee of backbenchers, recently announced he would be stepping down at the next general election. And though he already has three other jobs, he was happy to discuss how he could earn a little more.

That's how he was caught up in a sting, telling a non-existent company his annual rate for consultancy is around £60,000.

He also claimed Conservative party bosses would allow him time off from Westminster to carry out work for the company during the video call about a job as a board member for a fake South Korean firm. “I have a, I suppose, a degree of seniority within my party, which means that I'm given a little bit of flexibility that perhaps not all of my colleagues would have. So, yes. So I don't think that would be a problem at