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Andy Burnham: “It will be the situation room for making Britain better - the place we use to get power out of Westminster, into the…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2026
It will be the situation room for making Britain better - the place we use to get power out of Westminster, into the hands of people at a local level, so that they can turn things around.
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

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Describing the function of No10 North.

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