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    Burnham had two hospitality dinners with Man City chairman, deleted records show

    NCIJ NETWNCIJ NETWORKBy NCIJ NETWNCIJ NETWORKOctober 14, 2026 Business No Comments2 Mins Read
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    BBC News has asked GMCA for more details about this policy – given its website has entries dating back to 2022, despite the current mayoral term beginning in 2024.

    Downing Street has defended the two dinners with Man City’s chairman, saying this was hospitality received at home games, which had been declared, rather than separate meetings with the club chairman.

    But political pressure on Burnham to be clearer about any former discussions with Man City is continuing to mount.

    Tory shadow sports minister Louie French said: “Andy Burnham promised the country and House of Commons full transparency on his dealings with Manchester City.

    “This was essential after his inappropriate intervention into football.”

    Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has demanded that No 10 release all details of meetings between the prime minister and senior figures at the club.

    Burnham told the Rest Is Politics podcast last week: “I’ve been asked by the leader of the opposition to publish details of my meetings, which I’m happy to do and I’m going to.

    “I will quite clearly put out there everything that I have done working with them in my previous role as Mayor of Greater Manchester.

    “None of it is recent, actually, in terms of the meetings I had. I only had one significant meeting, actually, and that was in 2021.”

    The list of meetings, which was published by the GMCA on Monday, did not include detail on what was discussed. The BBC has asked GMCA why the two dinners were not specifically mentioned.

    In September Man City – which has dominated the top flight of English football for years – was found guilty by an independent commission of breaching Premier League financial regulations.

    The commission found City had broken rules over a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018 by creating “sham” contracts with commercial partners to secretly funnel more than £830m into their football operations.

    Sanctions are yet to be announced and City, which denies any wrongdoing, has lodged an appeal against the verdict.

    Earlier this month, Sir Richard Leese – who was head of Manchester City Council for 25 years until 2021 – defended a decade-old deal between the council and Man City owners Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG).

    Under the partnership between the authority and the company, which is linked to the United Arab Emirates royal family, land was leased to ADUG at “below comparable rates”, according to a University of Sheffield report.

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