Andy Burnham’s ‘king of the north’ jacket goes on display in Manchester

Burnham with the jacket he wore for a standoff with the government over lockdown funding. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The jacket Andy Burnham wore for a defiant al fresco speech telling the government that Greater Manchester would not accept any more Covid restrictions is to go on display this week.

The mayor’s navy worker’s jacket, described by one politics professor in a broadsheet think piece as “a political statement of his working-class credentials”, will be shown at the People’s History Museum in Manchester from Wednesday.