Sad news for Andy Burnham this morning as his landmark speech at the Institute for Fiscal Studies attracts about 100 viewers. It’s not as if there’s any other news today…
The King of the North has been hitting the Westminster circuit hard in January, appearing at the Institute for Government last week to talk about rewiring the state and so on. This time round he talked up his vision of “Manchesterism” and “massive change for the British state” to gear it towards devolution – he also touted the new idiotic Tourist Tax. The war on the Treasury continues…
Burnham, fleshing out his pitch for the top job, said: “We can’t stay where we are, we are in a rut,” and said “bottom up devolution” is required for growth. Not that anyone noticed – the livestream hovered between 90 and 105 viewers throughout the stream…
