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Andy Burnham: Can power in the UK be decentralised?

Stephen Sackur is in Manchester to talk to the city’s mayor, Andy Burnham. Are his efforts to decentralise power in the UK working?

Stephen Sackur is in Manchester to talk to the city’s mayor, Andy Burnham. Six years after he quit the UK parliament with the hope of seeing power decentralised and the north of England revitalised, how is his radical agenda going, and is he a threat to his own Labour Party’s leader, Sir Keir Starmer?

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