Roger Lee

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Thank you.

And thank you for having me back.

I hope I can say it or you'll edit it out appropriately.

What is Manchesterism?

Given that we've only been fully aware of it for the last 24 hours, obviously whatever I'm about to say is clearly subject to change.

But my understanding, and I think most commentators' understanding of Manchesterism, is just it's an extension of state intervention.

It's an extension of state intervention, but this time instead of it being the state intervening in the economy at a national level,

It's an attempt to intervene at a local level.

And the hope is that the outcome of that will be better than the outcome when the state has tried to intervene at a national level.

And Andy Burnham was quite explicit about this.

I mean, there's a direct quote from him.

where he says that intervention at a national state government level has not worked and this needs to be applied more locally.

And I think that really is the point here, is that we're not changing any philosophy here in terms of an economic philosophy.

This is merely more state of intervention applied differently.

And I think that is absolutely the key to understanding what Manchesterism is.

Now, I think it's, as I say, I stress, it's an extension of what we have already seen.

And I think John was mentioning this.

A lot of these ideas have floated around.

You could cut and paste.

I mean, you'll have seen these comments from other commentators, but you could cut and paste George Osborne's The Northern Powerhouse.

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