Andy Burnham
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879 appearances
100 recordings
14 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5d ago
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I know it can be done because we have done it here.
Change will be driven through the Prime Minister's office in an extended operation based here in Manchester.
But here's the important thing.
It will only be based here.
The job of Number 10 North will be to make power flow into the Midlands, into the Southwest.
into the east of England, and yes, into London, as I said before, as much as into the northeast, Yorkshire and the Humber, and here in the northwest.
It will be about offering new opportunities to extend devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by taking power deeper down.
The people of Dundee and Bangor feel just as distant from Holyrood and the Senedd
as they do from Westminster.
There was a risk, if you like, that we would carry on seeing Britain and the politics of our country go down a path towards greater darkness and division and ending up somewhere like the United States of America, where people don't talk to each other in the street if they vote different ways or in their workplace.
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We will not let that happen here.
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We will bring people back home.
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I've said in the long term there is a case for that, but I'm not advocating that in this by-election.
I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law.
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So help me, God.
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We've been on a path for 40 years that simply hasn't worked for people and places in this part of the world.
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And this now is the change moment.
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We have an opportunity to turn the tide, to make the country feel like it's working again, to make people feel hope again.
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That is the main thing I think we need in this country right now, for people to feel a sense of hope that there is something better to work towards on the horizon.
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This is a Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
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