Eighteen months into his job as chief executive of the Greater Manchester Mayoral Combined Authority, Eamonn Boylan tells Michael Burton about the priorities for the city in which he has spent most of his career.

It was perhaps hardly a surprise when housing and regeneration expert Eamonn Boylan was offered the job of chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority last year. ‘I've been part of the evolving Greater Manchester scene for all my adult working life,' he says.