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Change at Home and Abroad: the lessons of Manchester

Andy Burnham had been Mayor of Greater Manchester for less than three weeks when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the Manchester Arena in May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring more than a thousand. For the new Mayor, it marked the beginning of his remaking.
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