Since Andy Burnham walked into No10, he has made much of his determination to devolve power to the regions.
Indeed, he has called his plan to transfer a raft of decision-making powers away from Westminster and Whitehall the ‘biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen’.
But Sunday’s revelation that he plans to give regional mayors the ability to over-rule councils and force through planning approval for housing estates and tower blocks is not an extension of local democracy but the exact opposite.
The victims of this shameless power grab will, of course, be the residents of our villages, towns and cities who
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