THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Iain Macwhirter) - Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain
The prospective prime minister’s Monday speech showed no evidence of tackling the causes of the UK’s strangled growth. The post Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain The prospective prime minister’s Monday speech showed no evidence of tackling the causes of the UK’s strangled growth. UK Special Coverage Andy Burnham, the presumptive prime minister, hasn’t even measured the curtains in Number Ten yet and already he is promising to relocate it. His first Big Speech on the economy Monday in, where else, Manchester, promised to set up a “Number Ten North” in, where else, Manchester. This will be the driving force, he says, of a new devolved UK of the regions. “The nerve centre of a new, rewired Britain.” Burnham refused to take questions after his speech so journalists were unable to ask exactly what this all meant.…Open