Alex Forsyth

speaker

2,054 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 20 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Newscast · What’s Andy Burnham’s Plan To Move Power Out Of London? · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

I did know that, yeah. voice-verified

I was chatting in the office to some of the Newscast team last week and I was like, ooh, do you know what I'm really interested in? voice-verified

And they were like, what? voice-verified

And I was like, devolution. voice-verified

So here we go. voice-verified

We're going to talk about it a lot. voice-verified

Yeah, exactly right, because that is a slightly different thing. voice-verified

And you're right, there is going to be a part of the conversation when Andy Burnham becomes prime minister about what that does mean for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. voice-verified

But I think the thrust of what he's talking about as one of his really key kind of economic platforms is the idea of handing more power from Whitehall and Westminster to the regions of England. voice-verified

And that's what we're going to attempt to unpick a little bit. voice-verified

Yeah, because it's worth remembering that the way that layers of local government are funded at the moment in England, a lot of it, I mean, some of it for councils, for example, will come from the council tax to how much voice-verified

They increase council tax by. voice-verified

But a lot of it comes from the money that they get from central government. voice-verified

So whether that's kind of funding streams for roads or schools or whatever it might be or other pots of money from central government, they're quite dependent on that as a hefty chunk of the way that they're funded. voice-verified

And so, therefore, you do have these arguments about the way that money is allocated. voice-verified

Is it fair? voice-verified

Is X region or X town or X village getting more than Y? voice-verified

What's the reason for that? voice-verified

And I think that's sort of one of the questions that Andy Burnham may, and we have a sort of very vague idea of what he might look at at the moment, but it's not wholly developed, but may sort of be trying to address because there are lots of arguments about regional disparities. voice-verified

And we know that there is regional inequality in the United Kingdom and in England specifically. voice-verified

Showing 821–840 of 2,054 · page 42 of 103