It’s not just a No 10 in the north, it’s an engine for growth throughout the whole UK | Andy Burnham

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On Monday, while the cameras were fixed on that famous black door in Downing Street, something important was happening 165 miles away. A small team of officials and advisers were walking into an office building in Manchester to set about the remaking of the British state. This was the beginning of No 10 North: the first major act of this government and what I hope will be seen as its most defining. Over the course of the past 40 years, Britain has taken a series of wrong turns. In the 1980s, political power was centralised, economic power was privatised and communities were deindustrialised. Many of the places most affected have…

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