Josh Halliday

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338 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Today in Focus · How would PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham change Britain? - The Latest · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

This book didn't make the headlines at the time, but now it's required reading for anyone who wants to understand Andy Burnham and what he might do in power.

It's hard to overstate, actually, the contrast between an Andy Burnham as Prime Minister and a Keir Starmer.

Obviously, Andy Burnham is at the peak of his powers right now, and so he's very much relishing this moment.

The place where he delivered this speech today, the People's History Museum in Manchester,

is the museum that that you know displayed the the famous jacket that he wore in in the covid speech that made him the king of the north right so like yeah this is his place these are his people you know he's got all these relics of revolutions from from down the years so like it was

laden with symbolism and he very much enjoyed that.

He came in with jokes.

That is important for people, uplifting people in the room.

And then, yeah, when he got to the policy side of it, it was all about giving people a bit of hope back and talking about this huge rebalancing of power across the country.

There was a little bit of detail.

Mainly it revolved around devolving power to a more local level away from Whitehall.

There wasn't much on what power would trickle down to local authorities because it seemed very much focused on combined authorities, like the one in Greater Manchester that he led.

To do this, he's going to establish what he called Number 10 North, which is splintering off part of 10 Downing Street to have in Manchester...

I'm sure there's more, you know, there's a huge list of contentious issues down the line in terms of wrenching this power away from Whitehall.

But, you know, I've been speaking to people before and after the speech, and this Number 10 North operation seems to be much more significant than many people thought it would be.

There was a bit of a fear that it could just be this...

kind of tokenistic symbol you know splintering off uh you know you know five people into a room in manchester and calling it number 10 north but actually this seems to be a real like the sort of crucible of power for you know everything that he wants to do in terms of redistributing power across the country right he gave a bit of detail about its uh three key aims they were reforming

So essential utilities, water, energy, housing, it would be re-industrialization.

And the third one would be regeneration.

So that's a bit more flesh on the bone.

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