Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayoral Election

6 MAY

6Greater Manchester MAY Combined Authority Mayoral Election

Election Booklet Information from the Combined Authority Returning Officer and Candidate Election Addresses INTRODUCTION On Thursday 6 May 2021, the voters of Greater 9 candidates are standing for election for the Manchester will be voting to elect the Mayor of Mayor of Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester. They will be listed alphabetically on the ballot In addition to the Greater Manchester paper as follows: Combined Authority Mayoral Election, a Salford City Mayoral Election and Local BUCKLEY, Nick Elections for all Councils in Greater Reform UK Manchester will be held on Thursday 6 May BURNHAM, Andy 2021. In the Local Elections, all seats in Salford Labour and Co-operative Party and a third of the seats in the other nine districts (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, EVANS, Laura Kathryn Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Conservative Party Candidate Wigan) are up for election. FARMER, Marcus Jonathan Independent Residents who are registered to vote in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, HORROCKS, Melanie Jane Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan are Green Party able to vote in these elections. LEPORI, Simon Edward Liberal Democrats The Combined Authority Returning Officer is required by law to send a copy of this MARVEL, Alec* Election Booklet, about the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayoral MORRIS, Stephen Election, to every registered elector in English Democrats - “Putting England First!” Greater Manchester. The Booklet contains: SUTCLIFFE, David John* • a list of every candidate standing in the election in alphabetical order [*Did not submit an Election Address] • information about the Mayor of Greater Manchester and how the Mayor is elected Every candidate was given the opportunity to provide an Election Address to be included • information on how to complete your in this Election Booklet, and candidates who ballot paper, how you can vote, and what have done so were required to pay £5,000 to expect at your polling station each towards the Booklet’s production costs. • an Election Address from each of the The content of each Election Address included in candidates who has opted to be included this Booklet has been provided by the candidate. in this booklet. The views expressed are theirs alone. Lots were drawn to decide the order in which You can also find out more at the Election Addresses appear in the Booklet. https://gmelects.org.uk/ This Election Booklet has been published by Eamonn Boylan, the Combined Authority Returning Officer for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayoral Election. 2 3 The Mayor of How is the Mayor elected? Completing your How you can vote Greater Manchester The Mayor is elected using the ballot paper Supplementary Voting system. This means that voters have the opportunity At your polling station What will the Mayor of Greater to choose their first and second choice Please take time to read the instructions Before 4 May 2017, you should have Manchester do? candidate. This is different to the First below which provide more information received a poll card which includes the Past the Post system used in local and on how to complete your ballot paper. name and address of your polling station. The Greater Manchester Combined parliamentary elections. You can only vote at the polling station Authority (GMCA) was established in • You have the opportunity to cast your stated on this card. You do not need to 2011 and is made up of the ten Greater If one candidate gets more than half vote for your first and second choice take the poll card with you in order to vote Manchester councils. Since June 2015, of the first choice votes, then they will candidate but it may save time if you do. there has been an Interim Mayor, who be elected as the Mayor of Greater • Vote for your first choice candidate has acted as the GMCA’s eleventh Manchester. If no candidate gets more ✘ by putting a in the box in column Applying to vote by post or proxy member and Chair. From 8 May 2017, than half of the first choice votes, then A next to their name the Interim Mayor will be replaced by the two candidates with the most first • Vote for your second choice Anyone who is registered to vote the directly elected Mayor of Greater choice votes go into a second round. candidate by putting a ✘ in the box can apply to vote by post or appoint Manchester. The ten leaders (the elected All other candidates are eliminated. in column B next to their name someone they trust to vote on their Mayor in Salford) are members of the Any second choice votes from the • For your second choice to be valid, it behalf as a proxy. GMCA and will form the Mayor’s cabinet eliminated candidates, which have must be different to your first choice whilst continuing to lead their own been cast for the top two candidates • If you only mark a second choice, New applications for a postal vote councils. remaining in the contest, will then be your vote will not be counted. must have been received by your counted and added to their first choice An example ballot paper is shown here. SignificantElectoral effort Registration has been made Office to make (for the TheTHE Mayor MAYOR will have various OF powersGREATER totals. TheMANCHESTER candidate who has the pollinglocal stations authority COVID-19 area safe. in Health which and you live) safety assessments have been carried out on and responsibilities, including the fire highest overall total will be declared the Election of the Mayor for by 5.00pm on Tuesday 18 April 2017. If What does the Mayor of Greater Manchester do? Greater Manchester Combined Authority all polling stations and measures put in place service, transport, planning and housing MayorHow is of the Greater Mayor elected? Manchester. by the time you receive this candidate The Greater Manchester Combined Authority The Mayor is elected using the Supplementary Vote once ✘ in column A for your first choice, and to protect staff and voters. You will be required ✘ and(GMCA) also thosewas established previously in 2011 held and byis a the Voting system. This means that voters have the Vote once in column B for your second choice to wearinformation a face covering booklet unless theyou have postal a vote Policelegal and entity Crime in its Commissioner.own right. The ten Greater opportunity to choose their first and second Column A Column B reasonableapplication excuse deadline not to do so,has and passed, use there first choice second choice Manchester councils appoint one of its choice candidate. This is different to the handis stillsanitiser time on to arrival, appoint which someone will be made you trust available at the polling station. The layout will Decisionelected Making members as a member of the GMCA. system of first past the post used in local and to vote on your behalf as a proxy. In practice, since 2011, that has been the parliamentary elections. ensure you remain socially distanced from other electors and staff. Please bring your own Thecouncil Mayor leader will (or be in able Salford’s to makecase, the some elected The deadline for new applications for City Mayor of Salford) and since 2017, it has If one candidate gets more than half of the pen or pencil to vote if you wish to do so. decisions independently. Some of a proxy vote is 5.00pm on Tuesday 25 the included Mayor’s the directly decisions elected willMayor of require Greater first choice votes, then they will be elected Manchester who is the eleventh member and as the Mayor of Greater Manchester. If no If youApril have 2017. any questions about arrangements consultationChair of the GMCA. with andThe ten the leaders approval continue of to candidate gets more than half of the first at your polling station ahead of polling day, please contact your Elections Office for further the lead GMCA. their own Certain councils. decisions The Mayor has will various be choice votes, then the two candidates with Where to get more information madepowers by the and GMCA responsibilities, and Mayor including together. the fire the most first choice votes go into a second information. and rescue service, transport, the functions of round. All other candidates are eliminated. ApplyingTo download to vote by post application forms, go to a Police and Crime Commissioner, and acting Any second choice votes from the eliminated Decisions will be subject to scrutiny Anyonewww.yourvotematters.co.uk who is registered to vote can. applyApplication as an ambassador for the city region. candidates, which have been cast for the top by one or more overview and scrutiny to voteforms by post.must Your be pollreturned card provides to your Electoral two candidates remaining in the contest, will information about how to apply for a postal committeesThe Mayor alsomade has up important of members powers of over the then be counted and added to their first choice Registration Office in the local authority vote. New applications for a postal vote must ten housingGreater and Manchester planning within councils. the region, A Police totals. The candidate who has the highest area in which you live. Details of the ten have been received by your Elections Office by including control of the £300million Greater overall total will be declared the Mayor of and Crime Panel will scrutinise those 5pmElectoral on Tuesday Registration 20 April 2021 Offices. If by the intime Greater Manchester Housing Investment Fund, and Greater Manchester. decisions of the Mayor which relate to youManchester receive this Election can be Booklet found the at postal the back of has a duty to produce a Spatial Development Police and Crime Commissioner powers. vote application deadline has passed, there is Strategy (SDS) that covers the GMCA area. Completing your ballot paper this booklet. still time to appoint someone you trust to vote Please take time to read the instructions on your behalf as a proxy. Decision-making below, which provide more information on how The Mayor is able to make some decisions to complete your Combined Authority Mayoral Applying to vote by proxy independently. Some of the Mayor’s decisions Election ballot paper (yellow ballot paper). HOW YOU CAN VOTE Your poll card provides information about how require consultation with and the approval of to apply for a proxy vote. Your proxy must be a the GMCA. Certain decisions are made by the • You have the opportunity to cast your vote At your polling station registered elector and eligible to vote in these GMCA and Mayor together, e.g. the Spatial for your first and second choice candidate Before 6 May 2021, you should have received elections, as well as being able to vote on your Development Strategy must be approved a poll card, which includes the name and • Vote by putting a cross [x] in the box in behalf at your usual polling station. The by a unanimous vote of the council leaders. address of your polling station. Check your column A next to your FIRST CHOICE deadline for receipt of new applications for a poll card carefully as your polling station may candidate proxy vote is 5pm on Tuesday 27 April 2021. Decisions are subject to scrutiny by one or have changed. You can only vote at the polling more overview and scrutiny committees made • Vote by putting a cross [x] in the box in station stated on this card. You do not need to There are also some limited circumstances in up of members of the ten Greater Manchester column B next to your SECOND CHOICE take the poll card with you in order to vote, but which an emergency proxy can be appointed councils. A Greater Manchester Police, Fire candidate it may save time if you do. including if you have COVID-19 or need to and Crime Panel scrutinises decisions of the isolate on election day. Mayor that relate to the Mayor’s Police and • Your first and second choices should be Polling stations will be open between 7am and Crime Commissioner role and the Mayor’s fire different 10pm for you to cast your vote. Where to get more information and rescue functions. To download application forms, go to • If you only mark a second choice, your When you arrive in the polling station, you will https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ vote will not be counted. be asked for your name and address. Staff will i-am-a/voter/voting-person-post-or-proxy/ check you are on the electoral register and voting-post or contact your Elections Office. then give you ballot papers for all elections. Application forms must be returned to your 4 5 Elections Office in the local authority area Multilingual resources in which you live. Details of the ten Elections All voting material in polling stations is Offices in Greater Manchester can be found at in English. However, translations of key the back of this booklet. information will be available in Arabic, Bangla, Cantonese, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Mandarin, CANDIDATE By post Polish, Punjabi, Somali and Urdu. If you are a registered postal voter, your postal vote will be sent to you around Friday 23 April 2021. You should follow the instructions in the postal ELECTION ballot pack very carefully. The ballot paper(s) and the postal voting statement should be sent back in the return envelope provided. This must reach your Elections Office by 10pm ADDRESSES on Thursday 6 May 2021. If you miss the post, you can hand it in at your Elections Office, or at any polling station in your electoral area before 10pm on Thursday 6 May 2021.

Additional support The Combined Authority Returning Officer together with the Returning Officers in the ten local authority areas are committed to ensuring that everyone who wants to vote can do so by providing: • Polling stations that are accessible • Tactile voting devices to enable voters with visual impairments to vote in person • Large-print versions of ballot papers • The option for voters to take a companion (close relative or elector qualified to vote at these elections) with them for assistance • Polling-station staff trained to provide assistance where required.

6 7 I helped kids to avoid a life of crime. I saved kids from abuse. ON THURSDAY MAY 6TH, VOTE I designed projects to tackle our homelessness crisis and supported “ rough sleepers into accommodation. Many of our problems are a direct consequence of our system of governance. NICK I run a successful charity and business. I am used to creating teams that deliver success. It’s time to put the GREAT back into Greater Manchester. Nick Buckley MBE ” BUCKLEY Reform UK Mayoral Candidate for Greater Manchester FOR MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER Reform UK believes in common sense, returning all freedoms back to the people and stopping wasteful spending. We will reopen Greater Manchester as soon as possible “ and we want to reboot the economy by cutting taxes for the lowest paid. We will require police to focus on preventing crime and catching criminals, not woke nonsense.

We will oppose vaccine passports and we will commit to no more lockdowns, to Real policing to tackle freedom of speech and to preserving our incredible cultural heritage.

real crime I hope you will vote for change by voting for Nick. Richard Tice ” Real ideas to tackle Leader, Reform UK real homelessness PUTTING THE GREAT BACK INTO GREATER MANCHESTER Real solutions Policing Pledge A back to basics approach which tackles violent crime, reduces antisocial to be a real Mayor behaviour, protects our children and patrols our streets. Environmental Pledge Yes to clean air, no to congestion charge. Yes to new houses, no to building Prevent Crime on the Green Belt. Accountability Pledge Catch Criminals Introduce a waste and incompetence reporting hotline, highlight and correct mistakes in the public sector and hold our public servants to account. Restore Confidence Homelessness Pledge End rough sleeping in a year—or I will resign. PreventCrime T @NickBuckleyMBE F @NickBuckleyMBE I @NickBuckleyMBE reformparty.uk 0800 414 8525 CatchCriminals Prepared by the candidate, Nick Buckley of 7a Porchfield Square, Castlefield, Manchester, M3 4FG, RestoreConfidence who is acting as his own agent at the same address. Stephen Morris Vote for Stephen of the English Democrats

English Democrats Make Greater Manchester Police Fit for Purpose In January, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary placed Greater Manchester Police under 'Special Measures' because of its severe failings, the ultimate responsibility for these failings lie with the office of Mayor, Dear Voter we need a change of Mayor to reverse these failings and to protect our citizens. Hold those to account who failed the victims of sexual abuse. I was born, raised, live and worked all my life in Greater Manchester. I have worked in retail and public transport where I was the Unite Branch I Will Make our Local Transport System Fit for Purpose Secretary until moving to the Workers of England Union and in 2015 Peak fares will be abolished, and bring bus routes, frequencies, fares, and becoming the General Secretary. standards under local control, including daily/weekly/monthly capped My manifesto, my contract with you, guarantees 'Local Jobs for Local fares. There will be NO Greater Manchester Road Tax, or Zero Emission People', a living wage, social housing and public transport fit for Zone Tax, or other form of congestion charge under my Mayoralty. purpose. I know what it takes for businesses to survive; I know what we need to Make Sure Planning Looks at Long Term Sustainability do to make public transport an attractive option to use. There will be NO building on Green Belt land, affordable housing will make I will make sure that businesses tendering for government contracts up 70 - 80% of all new houses built on brownfield sites. Industrial units will have to have Family-Friendly Policies, they reject Zero Hour Contracts, have to have car parking facilities built under their units, areas above they implement the Greater Manchester 'Living Wage' and local people ground should be given to industrial units and not made into car parks. are given priority in job vacancies. I know how to tackle the appalling Child Poverty, Deprivation and Health & Social Care Homelessness spreading across our area under Labour. My Health and Abolish Hospital Car parking charges. Residents who study In Greater Social Care plans will make Greater Manchester a healthier and more Manchester to become doctors or nurses and sign up to work for the NHS prosperous place to live and work. in Greater Manchester for minimum of 5 years, will have their student fees paid for. Care units will be set up to take all the homeless off the streets of Stephen Morris Greater Manchester. The reduction in child poverty and deprivation in Greater Manchester will be a priority. Local Jobs for Local People

Prepared by the candidate, Stephen Morris of 75 Swinton Crescent, Unsworth, Putting Greater Manchester FIRST! Bury, BL9 8PB, who is acting as his own agent, at the same address

Greater Manchester Mayoral Insert 2021 2PP 02 April 2021 16:04:15 LAURA EVANS: A better plan for Greater Manchester Get police fighting crime 1 The Greater Manchester Mayor was meant to deliver again with leadership and change. But that hasn’t happened. extra resources. Crime is rising. Public transport’s congested. And if Roads, buses and you live outside of central Manchester, you’re being 2 left behind. trams working for We have a chance to do things differently. every town and village. Get GMP out of special measures and back 3 Reverse plans to build fighting crime, working with government to get on green space and more police on the street with the resources they need. countryside. Scrap the crippling Congestion Tax so we can 4 Protect jobs and protect peoples businesses & livelihoods, deliver support business. a wider range of apprenticeships to support jobs. 5 End the crippling Preserve our Green Spaces by reversing plans to Congestion Tax plan. concrete over our green belt, while building the homes we need where we need them. So it’s down to you. Your vote this May means we can do things differently. We can deliver a better plan.

Prepared by Matthew Thomas Littler of Greater Manchester Conservatives, Office 70, Atlantic Business Centre, Altrincham, WA14 5NQ, agent for Laura Kathryn Evans Vote Laura Evans. of Flat 6, Limehurst, 7 St Margaret’s Road, Bowdon, WA14 2BG Vote Conservative.

Andy Burnham: Our Voice What I said What I will do: I would do: • named, contactable • reduce homelessness Police Officer and PCSO Vote Andy for buses that and rough sleeping for every resident • introduce free bus • better homes via our work for people, not profit travel for 16-18s Good Landlord Charter • create a UCAS-style • better jobs via our Good It’s time to decide the future of our buses. system for Employment Charter Since Margaret Thatcher privatised our buses in 1986, we have apprenticeships • a Green Spaces Fund for seen fares doubled, routes cut and passenger numbers halved. • recruit 670 more communities If re-elected, Andy will bring buses back under public control for Police Officers and • a zero-carbon Greater the first time in 35 years. This will extra firefighters Manchester by 2038 allow us to create a London-style • build new cycling system over bus and tram by infrastructure Read Andy’s full Manifesto here: 2025 - with a single livery, tap-in/ andyformayor.co.uk/Manifesto tap-out ticketing and a cap on what you can spend in any day no matter how many buses and Back in 2017, I made a promise to donate trams you take. 15% of my salary every month to support our work on homelessness. I have kept that Vote Andy to make our buses work for you promise. The money has helped fund A Bed Every Night - our support scheme which looks Andy Burnham: Our Voice after over 500 people every night. If re-elected, I will continue to make homelessness a Last year, I stood up to the Tory personal priority and keep donating 15% Government when they tried to treat of my salary every month. people here as second-class citizens. I was a strong voice for Greater Manchester and together we stood firm. Days later the Government gave in. I will never accept second best for you, your family or your community. Our place. Our voice. Vote Andy. I will always be your voice, standing up for Greater Manchester and the North Prepared by Andy Smith of The Labour Party, The Wesley Centre, Royce Road, Hulme, M15 5BP, of England. agent for Andy Burnham, address in the district of Wigan. MELANIE HORROCKS A GREEN VOICE FOR EVERYONE TRANSPORT THAT PLANNING FOR CONNECTS COMMUNITIES, NOT Walking, cycling and public transport JUST FOR HOUSES can work together. With buses coming Covid has been a harsh reminder: under local control, we need a single, we’ve depended on local communities simple, flat fare. Melanie will set a like never before. New housing clear target to reduce road deaths to shouldn’t just be for developer profit. zero. Strong measures for clean air are I’ll demand developments that focus needed. The ‘cycle to work’ scheme on everyone’s needs, including needs a ‘cycle to school’ equivalent. protecting green spaces. #MelFORMayor FIGHTING FOR GREEN VOICES CHANGE EVERYONE’S RIGHTS THE CONVERSATION “I’m a qualified solicitor, with a career rooted “Proudly feminist, I in criminal defence, and six years at the Green Party councillors are already will speak up whenever Independent Police Complaints Commission. bringing new ideas into our town minorities come under “Something has gone very wrong with policing halls. As a Green mayor, I’ll challenge attack. I will openly challenge the in Greater Manchester. With the force now in facebook.com/ all ten councils to do far better. I MelHorrocksForMayor Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’. special measures, I’m the candidate with the won’t let them try to wish away the I will always stand up for trans and experience needed to put things right.” @MelHorrocks19 climate emergency. No more teachers’ non-binary people, and pensions invested in oil & gas, no more for disability rights.” seeing the airport as a cash cow – VOTE MELANIE FIRST CHOICE the old ways have to end. Because the voting system for Mayor is fairer, you get two votes – a first for your favourite candidate, and a second tactical vote that is counted if your favourite doesn’t win.

Prepared by Brian Arthur Candeland of 13 Devonshire Road, Manchester, M21 8XB, #1 First for your Favourite #2 Second for Safety agent for Melanie Jane Horrocks, address in the district of Trafford. Dear Friend Health & Social Care Houses in the right Greater Manchester is a great place st to live, I have lived in Stretford fit for the 21 places that fit for with my partner for the past 15 century everyone years and I am lucky to have � We need to refocus on our found my Forever Home. � Brownfield first, protecting communities, that are our precious green spaces. I know that so many of you are currently being left behind still struggling to find a home; with their physical and � New hyper-local plans with mental health. real involvement of the that is one of the reasons why I community. have opposed the current � Lobby central government � Using up-to-date development plan for Greater to bring the public health Manchester (GMSF). population and business budget together in Greater growth figures. It doesn’t provide the right homes Manchester. in the right places. We need to build � Get real about social � Integrate our hospitals and housing and what is on our brownfield sites first and make councils to allow greater sure we build social housing to help people into a place affordable across Greater communication and joint Manchester so everyone can they can call their home. working with social care. find their place. I believe we are best when we have all the tools and resources we need to prosper, that’s why I’m calling for: � An integrated, cheap and green transport system. Restoring faith in Transport that Greater Manchester works for us not � A health and social care system that works Police against us seamlessly from cradle to grave, I have seen far too much inefficiency and delay in our local � Fix the broken culture in � Single ticket system and hospitals during my career in the NHS. our Police force and the lack prices that are understood � Education and training for the next of leadership over the past across the network. generation to make sure they are 15 years. � Safer footpaths and prepared for the green industrial � Create an independent cycleways that link our revolution we plan to drive our reporting system allowing communities together so our economy in the years to come. police officers to feel villages, towns and cities can � Community, transparency and confident that their truly become 15 minute complaints are dealt with neighbourhoods. scrutiny should be at the heart of properly. our policing, so we can begin to � More electric charging � rebuild trust in our Police Effective neighbourhood points to aid the move from Force. policing that works with communities not against petrol to electric and reduce That is why I am asking for them, rebuilding the broken the air pollution without a your support to be bridges. congestion charge. Mayor of Greater Manchester. i LIBERAL DEMOCRATS Yours Simon Lepor WORKING HARD ALL YEAR ROUND FOR YOU Prepared by Sebastian Bate of 23 Elm Grove, Manchester, M20 9PQ, Agent for Simon Lepori of 22 Kendal Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0DZ . Contact details for Elections Offices

Telephone: 01204 338024 Bolton Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: http://www.bolton.gov.uk

Telephone: 0161 253 5252 Bury Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: http://www.bury.gov.uk

Telephone: 0161 234 1212 Manchester City Council Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections

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Telephone: 0161 793 2500 Salford City Council Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.salford.gov.uk

Telephone: 0161 217 6026 Stockport Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: https://www.stockport.gov.uk

Telephone: 0161 342 8355 Tameside Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: http://www.tameside.gov.uk

Telephone: 0800 0234 206 Trafford Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: http://www.trafford.gov.uk/elections

Telephone: 01942 827168 Wigan Metropolitan Email: [email protected] Borough Council Website: https://www.wigan.gov.uk/elections

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This booklet is published by Eamonn Boylan, Greater Manchester Combined Authority Returning Officer, Tootal Buildings, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU.

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