He’s the civil servant tasked with delivering Andy Burnham’s pledge to end centuries of London-centric government by running an outpost in Manchester.
So eyebrows were raised last Monday when Sam Lister strolled out of his £2.2million townhouse in trendy Islington and started his working week from Whitehall as usual.
For The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the newly appointed Director General of No 10 North has no current plans to swap his family’s comfortable life in the capital for a symbolic fresh start 200 miles away in Manchester.
Instead, he works Mondays from the Cabinet Office, before catching an early train to
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