Greater Manchester’s Political and Business leaders rally on Prime Minister
It’s time to level-up the gap in education, employment and skills and deliver your promises to supercharge Greater Manchester’s post-pandemic…
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Andy Burnham: Doing things differently is in Greater Manchester’s DNA
There is no better example of Greater Manchester’s dynamic spirit than our city-region’s efforts to end the need for rough…
Public ownership with local control will transform Northern transport
By Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central and Shadow Rail Minister If we are serious about social mobility, then we…
DevoConnect Summer Soirée: Where next for English devolution?
DevoConnect held its annual summer debate on Tuesday evening at Portcullis House, seeing a lively discussion about the future of…
Amid chaos in Westminster, devolution will help us ‘take back control’
In post-Brexit Britain, it is no longer sustainable for power and control to be centred in Westminster and Whitehall. Devolution…
English Devolution: Where Next?
Has the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ hit the buffers? Four years on and despite all the hype around connecting the North like…
‘A Tale of Two Cities’: Can metro mayors navigate the contradictions of devolution?
Amidst academics critical of city-region devolution and more enthusiastic think-tanks, local leaders argue that this was the only devolution on…
Metro Mayors and Health Devolution
The full devolution of responsibility for health and social care budgets and services has happened in only one area –…
One year on: devolution is here to stay
Will devolution ever become the norm in England? With Metro Mayor Number 8 recently elected in the Sheffield City Region and the North of Tyne deal next up in 2019, it certainly…
Ambitious low emissions goals set as Andy Burnham opens LowCVP’s Moving North conference
Ambitious low emissions goals set as Andy Burnham opens LowCVP’s ‘Moving North’ conference The Mayor of Greater Manchester came together…