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

So I think maybe looking at some of this stuff around funding might be part of what he sees as a solution to some of that. voice-verified

I mean, everybody in Westminster is trying to guess what Andy Burnham is going to do. voice-verified

Of course, it is like the central essay question at the moment. voice-verified

But on devolution, we certainly know about his ambition. voice-verified

We know that it's worth saying the speech he gave when he really talked about devolution was, voice-verified

And this idea about transferring power outside of Westminster to the English regions. voice-verified

That was the speech which was billed as his sort of economic strategy insight speech. voice-verified

So we know that he thinks this is actually really important to economic growth, to getting the country growing as a whole. voice-verified

So in terms of what he might do, he's talking about things like regional power over employment, something actually that he's had in Greater Manchester. voice-verified

He's talking about the relationship between different parts of the United Kingdom and the Treasury. voice-verified

So he doesn't want the Treasury to have so much control by the sounds of it over money and powers that local authorities or mayors might have. voice-verified

We know he's shifting. voice-verified

He's talking about a number 10 in the north. voice-verified

We don't know what that means for devolution, i.e. voice-verified

transfer of powers, but it's about cementing, I think, voice-verified

This idea of the regions around the country having as much clout as Westminster and Whitehall does at the moment. voice-verified

And then there are questions about whether he may look at some sort of fiscal devolution. voice-verified

That's like the fancy pants term for what Ant was just talking about, which is whether or not local layers of government, whether that's a mayor, for example, could... voice-verified

have some more power over taxes that are raised and choose how they might spend that money, or even potentially, and this is a big question mark in a contentious area, but something over the way they raise taxes and revenue themselves. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Showing 841–860 of 2,054 · page 43 of 103