Vikram

[Vikram @virvikram]

Invited to Pfizer vaccine, got 'unblinded' my trial.

Happy to say:"Pleasure talking to you just now – I can confirm that you have received two doses of SARS-CoV-2 rS with Matrix-M1 adjuvant vaccine as part of the NOVOVAX trial. That is, you have received the active vaccine.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@JohnCleese Don’t worry John.

Andy has a magic wand.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Please read this before the next general election

[Vikram @virvikram]

Here is a true Mayor. Working for the city.

@MayorofLondon is not a King of Anywhere.

He is a Mayor.
Mayor of London.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger.

Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger.

Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@ToryWipeout Oh, because Andy has a magic wand.

Didn’t work before. Twice.

May be he has it cleaned up.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@dave43law Andy has a magic wand.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@Channel4News He is King of North.
Soon to be crowned King of Britain.

He doesn’t have to respect any rules. Rules have to respect him.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@LizWebsterSBF @niktraykov What if he doesn’t?
And he won’t.

Has he uttered one word about rejoining the EU? Has he said he will overrule Red Lines of the Labour manifesto?

Only thing he is moving on with is moving No10 to Manchester!

Don’t raise your hopes Liz.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@AlistairCarns @Peymasad Such tests do not apply to Andy.

He is King. Of North.
Ready to be crowned.
King of Britain.

Once Andy sets his mind to, Charlie will have no chance.

[Alexander Seale @AlexSeale]

“@Keir_Starmer has done a lot in the last two years to strengthen the UK’s role in #Europe and within #NATO. He did so with a dignity, decency and courage.” — President @EmmanuelMacron at today’s E5 summit in Berlin. 🇪🇺🇬🇧 
#Macron #Starmer

[Vikram @virvikram]

@GordonFielden The King of North will be crowned King of Britain.

He can do whatever the phuk he wants. And he will.

[JanTheStitchWitch @pictureladyjan]

If Burnham becomes PM, he has a hard road ahead with our allies.
Because they trust Keir Starmer, who has restored their faith in us as reliable and dependable.
They'll be diplomatic, they have to be, they'll smile on the surface.
But they will know what Burnham did.

[Gerard McDermott KC @mcdermottkc_]

A letter from @LucyMPowell “We need to come together again”. A word …. If I may …. We weren’t apart until you and others divided us with a manufactured by election … and then forced a mayoral race … for which selection seems to have been limited. You and others worked for years to make Labour electable … but threw it away … and … how about consultation with the membership … is that just too difficult ?

[Vikram @virvikram]

@DanCardenMP @paulmasonnews Public doesn’t matter to Andy.

Members of the Labour Party have rejected his bid to be the Leader of the Party. TWICE.

Yet, here he is. Unseated a successful PM, elected with a massive majority only two years ago.

Andy has a magic wand.

[Tim Chapman 💙 @timchap]

When the history of this period is written up, people will forever ask how a Manchester Mayor in a matter of weeks became PM of the UK with no leadership contest and no clear policy platform. Ejecting in the process a sitting PM with a massive majority! A spectacular coup.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@SamCoatesSky Andy is going to have the same problem with the media that Sir Keir had. Journalists at @BBC , @guardian, @SkyNews etc are out of control, and think rules only apply to others, not to them.

[Vikram @virvikram]

@TomSoede He is an imposter and he knows it.
Too scared and scarred to go to members who have rejected him in the past. TWICE.

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

I’m heartbroken & demoralised that Keir Starmer, the best PM this country has had, who actually has morals, was pushed out by those who don’t. However, he retains his good soul, which hasn’t been corrupted. He epitomises how all politicians should look & behave. He’s unmatched🙌🏼

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Manchester Model. What It Actually Looks Like Up Close.

Andy Burnham is asking the country to trust him with Downing Street on the strength of what he calls the Manchester Model. Eight years of integrated public services and progressive governance that he says Britain should adopt nationally. Before the country decides, it should know what that model actually produced.

Start with the money.

£578 million in public money was lent by Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes. Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to the GMCA when seeking loans and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking exemption from affordable homes requirements. The Court of Appeal is considering judgment on whether the loans were lawful.

Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable. Less than five percent. Whitaker's personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. The luxury towers were marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to Telegraph analysis of Companies House filings.

Now the transparency.

In April 2026 the Information Commissioner issued a practice recommendation to the GMCA for failing to publish Freedom of Information compliance statistics. Greater Manchester Police, under Burnham's authority as Police and Crime Commissioner, was separately issued with an ICO enforcement notice for 850 overdue FOI requests, more than 800 over six months old. The oldest had been waiting two and a half years.

Now the transport flagship.

The Bee Network has absorbed a £30 council tax precept increase in two years to subsidise its operation. The £115 million Clean Air Zone was scrapped after £211 million in public funds was received and only £22.5 million returned. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains twenty two years behind London. The board of Be.EV, the company holding the Bee Network's public EV charging contract, includes Burnham's wife, who joined the company six years into his mayoralty and was appointed to the board as his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible.

Now the promises.

Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping by 2020. Rough sleeping rose. Today 18,000 people across Greater Manchester have no permanent address. He promised Platt Bridge a flood solution by 2018. The area flooded in 2015, 2021 and on New Year's Day 2025. The projected solution is now 2028. When asked on Question Time why he would not apologise, he said it was before his time. He became Mayor in 2017. The promise was made in 2018.

Now the politics.

Labour's candidate to replace Burnham as Mayor is Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, the body that accepted Renaker's low profit figures and granted the affordable homes exemption. The mayoral by-election on 30 July will be fought under the supplementary vote system rushed through the Lords two days before Burnham's Makerfield victory, designed to consolidate left of centre second preferences and lock out Reform.

108 Labour councillors lost their seats in Greater Manchester in May's local elections. The region Burnham governed for eight years delivered the most devastating local election result in Labour's history.

This is the Manchester Model. These are its documented facts. The country is being asked to implement it nationally. It should read the small print first.

Bev Craig. Labour's candidate to replace Burnham. Leader of the council that granted Renaker's affordable homes exemption.