Andy Burnham‘s first major speech since Keir Starmer announced his resignation was light on detail and heavy on pathos. But make no mistake, when he said he intends to rip up the Westminster establishment by its roots and re-bed it in the North of England, he was being deadly serious.
Burnham’s predecessors have paid lip service to the concept of transporting power out of Whitehall and carting it up the M1. Rishi Sunak made a great play of his plan to transfer 700 civil servants to a new ‘Treasury of the North’ in Darlington. But the move was ultimately seen as
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