The former Manchester council chief executive has passed away aged 71
Former Manchester council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein - the man widely credited with spearheading the city’s 21st Century renaissance - has died aged 71. He leaves behind wife Vanessa, two children and three step children.
The older of two brothers, Sir Howard was born into a Jewish family in Cheetham Hill in 1953. His dad Maurice – whose parents had emigrated from Russia in the 1900s – sold raincoats on Cheetham Hill Road above a laundrette opposite the library. From humble beginnings, his first job at the council came with an annual salary of £500, Sir Howard quickly climbed the town hall ranks. But it was when Graham Stringer, now MP for Blackley and Broughton, became council leader in 1984 that his career really began to take off.
“You have got to work with the government, because of the entirely centralised way they deal with power,” Sir Howard once said of the outlook would define his tenure. “You could have the Liverpool approach, which in the 1980s was conflict. Then the hard work really began, with Sir Howard having to use all his renowned powers of negotiation to cajole and convince the myriad economic interests involved to get onboard with the grand vision.
Ex-Chancellor George Osborne once dubbed Sir Howard 'one of the very, very best public servants ever come across', having being persuaded to unlock northern England's economic might with a devolution deal for Greater Manchester in 2014 - the first outside London.
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