Louise Haigh
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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He he absolutely is.
And when he talks about the Makerfield test, it doesn't mean that every policy has to deliver funding for Makerfield.
It's um talking about how communities like C Makerfield that feel that they have been ignored or not by served by the politics of Westminster will have to be top of the list now.
So this is why the place based approach is so important.
So part of it is devolution and making sure that the authorities as close to the ground so that whether that be the council or the or the mayoral authority have the resources and the powers they need to do that.
And that those decisions aren't being made in Whitehall.
But also that the decisions that are left in Whitehall are taken from a place-based perspective.
So I'll give you an e example of that.
The Home Office, when it disperses asylum seekers, so when it places asylum seekers around the country, it does so basically on the basis of the contract, whether it be MIRS or Circo, and purely on a cost basis for that line in their budget.
But the consequences of those decisions
drive enormous costs in the country because they're routinely placed in the poorest areas of the country.
alongside your probation hostels, children in care that are shipped out of London and other wealthier areas, and the social cohesion and risks and community tensions that those decisions cause put enormous costs on those areas and have profound impacts both for the economy and society.
It was just a couple of months ago, just before the world championships kicked off, that we were able to announce with the government and the government had worked really closely with the council and it is obviously something I'm incredibly grateful to Keir Starmer for to invest in the cruise ball and ensure that we kept the snooker world championships here for another twenty years at the very least.
Um yes, that deserves a clap in Sheffield, definitely.
Because we genuinely believed we were gonna lose it.
We genuinely believed we were gonna lose it to Dubai or China.
And I think as you say, you know, all of us growing up have that very romantic, kind of nostalgic feeling about watching the snooker on a bank holiday Monday.
It's very personal to me as well, 'cause my brother is a snooker journalist and has a snooker podcast, so we're just such a Sheffield pair of siblings.
Do you play?
No.
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