'Andy Burnham has levelled up city centre Manchester, but not the rest'

“Andy Burnham has levelled up city centre Manchester, but he hasn’t levelled up the rest,” Conservative mayoral candidate Laura Evans says pointedly.

The Tory candidates knows what the campaign trail entails. She was previously a councillor for the Village ward, covering Timperley from 2011 to 2018. To take that seat, she defeated a Liberal Democrat - something that hadn't been done there since 1994 - by just 61 votes. When she stood again, she won by a margin 10 times larger of 682 votes. Evans chose to stand down for the 2019 local elections.

That left the door open for Evans, who didn’t take part in the selection process initially due to ‘ill health’. In many ways, she’s a safe bet for the party: she stood for the Greater Manchester mayoralty in 2021 and picked up one in five votes, has experience of local government in Trafford, and she was part of the 'ReThink GM' campaign which railed against the original Clean Air Zone plan put forward - which was then abandoned.

After that, there will be a 'halt the half-baked Low Traffic Neighbourhoods scheme' to 'end this war on motorists', followed by a full review of the accounts. That’s why his flagship policy, the Greater Manchester Baccalaureate would be scrapped by Evans ‘for creating another layer of problems’ where someone ‘can take an exam that is not as recognised’ in other parts of the country. Mr Burnham's office would argue that the MBacc doesn’t involve its own exams, it’s a programme designed to prime teenagers into a specific career path with a combination of GCSEs.

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