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The £100million spent on an axed "clean-air zone" in Manchester could cost Andy Burnham his Westminster seat, critics have warned.The Mayor of Greater Manchester suffered major backlash from drivers after suggesting a Sadiq Khan-style Ulez scheme in the city.The project cost the taxpayer £100million before it was scrapped, with money spent on 462 cameras with automatic number-plate recognition technology.Some have warned this "flagrant misuse" of funds will cost the mayor in a by-election for the Makerfield constituency.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Laura Evans, the Conservative Party's spokesman in Greater Manchester, told The Sunday Telegraph the clean-air initiative was "totally unnecessary".She said: "It was an indulgence.
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It was something he thought, for whatever reason, he could get away with.
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He protested it was the Government's fault or anyone else's fault.
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You could have spent that money so much better."I think that will cost him.
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