Andy Burnham’s whereabouts in the 24 hours before speaking to Building perhaps sum up his relationship to the city of Manchester.

The 52-year-old, once dubbed Bambi in Westminster due to his youthful looks and fluttering eyelashes, was pictured DJing at the Ramona pizza restaurant and bar in the Ancoats area of the city last week. 

He later posted his setlist on Twitter, which, unsurprisingly, was packed full of tunes from the city’s Madchester era of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Factory Records acts such as Happy Mondays and New Order. It was fitting that the set took place on the site of a former MOT garage and industrial warehouse that has been converted into a hip pizza restaurant and bar by Capital & Centric – the kind of regeneration that the Madchester boom arguably helped accelerate in the city.