Broadening and deepening English devolution may well be signature policies of an upcoming government led by Andy Burnham, but how will he handle the politics of an increasingly fractured UK? All of ...

Andy Burnham has built his reputation on championing regional devolution – as Greater Manchester’s mayor he was celebrated as the “king of the north”. If, as now seems likely, he becomes prime ...

Last week, the world’s most globe-spanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain narrowly salvaged its nominal unity, the ...

Devolution is a laudable endeavour, but it will widen the gap between thriving and struggling areas as much as closing it, writes Sanjay Raja Andy Burnham’s pitch for devolution was laudable. An ...

Andy Burnham's recent vision for a "No. 10 North" is about far more than relocating civil servants from Whitehall to Manchester - it is an argument that economic renewal depends on rewiring how the UK ...

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