The mayor is lobbying Chancellor Rachel Reeves about an idea that could bring the cost down
Jim McMahon was leader of Oldham Council back in 2014 when Greater Manchester's first devolution deal was signed, setting the wheels in motion which have now made Andy Burnham arguably the most powerful Labour figure outside London. A decade on, he's now the government Minister in charge of overseeing new deals handing powers from Whitehall to leaders across the North.
And he lobbied for greater local involvement in the benefits system, with the current centralised model 'designed to trip people up' rather than help them into work.
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