Andy Burnham

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I promise to end rough sleeping at the first opportunity.

We built a city-region with twice the economic growth of anywhere else in the UK. What we did in Greater Manchester, we can do across the nation.

Burnham has spoken in favour of a land tax, and he could phase in a scheme that replaces council tax and stamp duty, setting England, and possibly the other countries of the UK if they follow suit, in an exciting new direction towards land…

Sparks are about to fly because one of the battlegrounds in Andy Burnham’s first months in office will be how to raise funds to support a wide array of measures he hopes will improve living standards.

Crucially, No 10 North will bring the whole of Whitehall together behind places rather than standing in their way.

It will remove barriers to regeneration, from council house building to public transport infrastructure.

I am not leaving office without reforming social care.

Funding new announcements ahead of my first Budget will require ministers to be prepared to reprioritise how they allocate their budgets.

To end rough sleeping in our country

I promise to apply the economic program I call Manchesterism.

It’s not just a new office. Through this place, power is going to flow, energy is going to flow, new ideas are going to come through.

I see the same challenges up and down the country. There’s a lot of communities that feel a little bit forgotten, that don’t get the attention and the investment they deserve.

The whole purpose of No 10 North is to put more power into every postcode in the land, including the postcodes of Harlow.

This will entail putting essentials under stronger public control.

I plan to take power out of here, and carry it into every postcode in the land.

Things are just completely coming full circle here for me, and to be here with you all in the heart of Manchester this Friday morning, at the end of a fairly big week, is just everything to me because it’s almost exactly 35 years since I…

I cannot tell you what a proud moment this is. I think this might be the best day of my life. I’m not joking either. I know you think I am, but I’m not.

The Prime Minister stated up front that another referendum on independence was off limits because it would take our focus away from growing the economy and helping families with the cost of living.

Whitehall will never again fight against the wishes of nations and regions for more devolution. That's over for good.

If we get that feeling, then I think so much is possible that doesn’t feel possible right now, and we can really get the energy flowing right around the country.

High streets lifted around the country, Britain reindustrialised, getting those good jobs back into all of our regions. We’ve got such an opportunity, everybody, ahead of us.

I mean it when I say every postcode, everybody. That’s what we’ve got to do. Nowhere forgotten, everywhere feeling heard, everyone with a sense that their place can be more than it is today.

And that is what Number 10 North is all about: putting power in every postcode so that people can turn things around for themselves and make changes, just as this great city has done, and the other English cities are doing through…

That opportunity has not been evenly spread around the country, and not all places have felt that they are part of the national story, and that is what this Government is going to work every single day to change.