‘Another really hard year’: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham reflects on 2021 in online message

Mr Burnham thanked front-line and emergency service workers in his online message for the festive period and the New Year.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy BurnhamGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has reflected on “another really hard year” as he gave his online message for the festive period and the New Year.

Mr Burnham looked back at 2021 as another year that was dominated by Covid-19 and thanked front-line and emergency service workers for everything they had done.

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He also cast an eye over some of the achievements of the last 12 months in the city-region and expressed the hope that 2022 would be a much more positive year.

What did Mr Burnham say?

Mr Burnham said: “This has been another really hard year for everybody in Greater Manchester, but as we come to the end of it I just want to say a huge thankyou from everybody here for all of your work on the front line of our emergency services, working in our communities to support people.

“Without you, honestly, I don’t know where we would be.

“Even in difficult times we have continued to make progress as a city-region. It’s great news that we have now managed to reduce levels of rough sleeping back to where they were about a decade ago, and we’ve taken the decision to put our buses back under public control, which means we will start building a better public transport system in 2022.

“So hopefully better times lie ahead.”

Mr Burnham rounded off his message by once again thanking the city-region’s key workers and wishing Greater Manchester residents “a very prosperous New Year”.