Alex Forsyth

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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.

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

And then there's the secondary question to all of that, which is just how much money might be available. voice-verified

So we've already heard Andy Burnham talk about this big council house building idea when he wants to get this big programme of new council houses built. voice-verified

How is that funded? voice-verified

Is there enough resource? voice-verified

And when you look back to where devolution ambition has been in the past over, again, successive governments, really, there's quite often from the people that are tasked with delivering change on the ground in local communities saying, voice-verified

this question about, well, is there enough money really to make a real difference? voice-verified

Yeah, exactly. voice-verified

Whether it's like direct funding or whether it is control over the funding, you're completely right. voice-verified

And it was really interesting that when Andy Burnham did give his first kind of speech after the Mayfield by-election, which he was talking about this idea of shifting power away, he was really clear. voice-verified

And obviously he's coming at this as a man who's had an experience of being almost on the other end of the devolution equation as one of the mayors for the best part of the last decade. voice-verified

And he was sort of pointing to, subtly, voice-verified

Clearly, the fact he's had some battles with the Whitehall machine in the Treasury as he as mayor was trying to wrest power or funding or whatever it might be away from them. voice-verified

And the message he was quite clearly giving was that he doesn't want that to be the case anymore. voice-verified

He was talking about no more of that, no more of Whitehall and the Treasury trying to like hoard on to power and funding. voice-verified

He wants it to get out there. voice-verified

across the regions. voice-verified

And, you know, he's obviously a man that speaks from a personal experience in that respect as the mayor of Greater Manchester. voice-verified

And he also made the point that whoever he appoints to his cabinet, while he's taking, he says, a very different approach to governing and that he wants to be a lot more collegiate with backbench MPs and listen to everybody and take everybody's perspectives into account, he was clear that he was going to set the direction of travel as prime minister. voice-verified

So, you know, you can imagine with that, voice-verified

And given how central he's put this whole notion of devolution to his very early signs that we're getting from him about what he wants to do in government, you can imagine that he's going to want to drive this forward. voice-verified

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