Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain ^74.2%

The American Conservative - By Iain Macwhirter - 7/1/2026, 4:03 AM

Negativity Bias 40.3% - Hasty Generalization 28.2% - Confirmation Bias 22%

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... more