“We’re building the answer” – Andy Burnham on the North vs Westminster

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Andy Burnham has thrived after switching Westminster for Manchester as a mayor. And he has high hopes for the North harnessing its voice more in the future. The Labour mayor of Greater Manchester spoke with Andrew Harrison about boosting regions outside of London, and dealing with names and not numbers in his role. “You look at things through different eyes. You can deal with names not numbers.” “Before these mayors in regions, where did people complain? People at least have one person to complain to.” “Having made all these promises to the north, they were very quickly in default mode.” “If you go with the rules of Westminster, in the end people don’t know who you are.” “We’re building the answer for more places to set their own course.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.6	Hello and welcome to today's bunker. I'm Andrew Harrison. Andy Burnham has been a lot of things in his time. Health Secretary, Culture Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the last Labour government,
1:15.8	and twice contender for the Labour leadership.
1:18.2	But in his current job as Labour Mayor for Greater Manchester, he arguably has more power and more room to maneuver than at any time
1:25.3	before, with responsibility over health, transport, housing and policing in a region of
1:30.6	nearly 3 million people, and a bully pulpit to badger the government.
1:35.7	It's helped him to build an independent northern power base that can sometimes erk at labour in London
1:40.9	as much as it does the Conservatives.
1:43.0	Andy Burnham has just declared that he'll stand for a third term as Greater Manchester Metro
1:47.0	Mayor rather than take what some would say is a golden opportunity to return to Parliament
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