Ant Breach
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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in the same way and places should absolutely be thinking about how can they grow new businesses and new specialisms, especially under a kind of more devolved model where that becomes more important.
Well, you know, if he can't do it, no one else can, right?
You know, the fact that his career has been built on kind of making a success out of Greater Manchester, I think suggests that how he does with his devolution agenda is how he will be judged by the electorate indeed.
his legacy.
This is his thing.
This is his thing.
I guess the one single thing to look out for over the next few months, I think it's actually some of the fiscal devolution stuff and thinking about how, not necessarily the rates or kind of allowing places to flex the tax rate, how broad is the tax base that he's going for?
Are we thinking about income tax as well as corporation tax as part of the new model for funding the mayorities?
Because, as we just heard, he wants to do quite a lot of stuff
Quite a lot of responsibility is being devolved to the local level.
Some of the details can be worked out in how to do that.
As you said, the big question is exactly how we fund that.
And to make this a coherent agenda, one that improves growth but also improves public services, you're going to need to have a quite different model of funding these services and indeed allowing places to benefit from growth to fund those services.
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