Greater Manchester mayor says stories that Marie-France van Heel has links to electric car charging network are ‘frankly disgraceful’

Andy Burnham has hit out at critics of Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) who he says have made “frankly disgraceful” false claims about his wife’s professional links to an electric car charging network.

The Greater Manchester mayor accuses opponents of the CAZ of spreading false information about Marie-France van Heel, a marketing executive who married Burnham in 2000.

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