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More details will emerge in time I suspect, but great news about the expansion of McLaren today (complete with correct location!) @henrimurison.bsky.social www.thestar.co.uk/business/sup...
Supercar company to invest £40m and create 300 jobs in South Yorkshire
A new range of luxury models and its first SUV are planned
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Great write up following our conversation with @theguardian.com on the overnight levy. Business Improvement Districts across the country have already brought levies forward in many places - this now adds accountability and consistency, in the places mayors want the powers.
@henrimurison.bsky.social · last wk.Read @joshhalliday.bsky.social #tourismlevy, one of northern correspondents today who have been explaining why policy needed @zoebillingham.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social & my colleagues @np-partnership.bsky.social worked with Mayors to win argument for it www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Steel workers in Rotherham and across South Yorkshire have shown remarkable resilience through a prolonged period of uncertainty. They deserve a sustainable plan that gives them confidence in the future. Today’s government announcement begins to give them that. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Government moves to acquire Speciality Steel UK
The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has today announced the Government will work towards the public acquisition of Speciality Steel UK (SSUK).
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Read @joshhalliday.bsky.social #tourismlevy, one of northern correspondents today who have been explaining why policy needed @zoebillingham.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social & my colleagues @np-partnership.bsky.social worked with Mayors to win argument for it www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The hospitality industry fears a tourist tax will deter visitors – the evidence says otherwise
Studies from hotspots across Europe that have introduced levies suggest they have no impact on visitor numbers
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Rotherham is a striking lesson in growth for the rest of Britain www.thetimes.com/article/c41f...
Rotherham is a striking lesson in growth for the rest of Britain
The town’s Advanced Manufacturing Park shows how scaling up and spreading economic development much more widely is what Britain needs
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Welcome announcements from the PM @andyburnham.bsky.social of secondments to Metro Mayors from civil service plus fast stream for #YorkshireandtheHumber www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...
Huge congratulations to students, teachers and families on #ALevelResultsDay! 🎉 Whatever your grades, remember your potential is limitless. At SHINE, we back teacher-led projects that level the field for young people in the North. Find out more at 👉 shinetrust.org.uk/why-we-exist/ #ResultsDay2026
This week the PM was in #Sheffield making hugely consequential commitments to all the cities & places of #England Read @thetimes.com by @davidcollinsnews.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/4b47...
A little #Rotherhamism on Radio 4, complete with the authentic vox pops about how much remains to be done! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Currently - The Rebirth of Orgreave - BBC Sounds
Who benefits as a former mining site is regenerated?
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The key projects that could be unlocked by Burnham’s income tax plan trib.al/qhDfEFZ
The key projects that could be unlocked by Burnham's income tax plan
The Prime Minister's drive for devolution could accelerate languishing infrastructure projects
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Burnham to free mayors from ‘Treasury death grip’ with new devolved powers
Burnham to free mayors from ‘Treasury death grip’ with new devolved powers
Local leaders say plan will transform funding so English regions no longer rely on Whitehall handouts for projects England’s regional mayors will be able to break out of the “death grip of the Treasury” by borrowing to invest in big projects under “transformational” plans to shift power out of Whitehall. For the first time, mayors will keep a share of income tax generated in their area from 2028, as well as business rates totalling tens of millions of pounds by April 2027. Continue reading...
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Great news that #fiscaldevo including business rates across strategic authorities and income tax to follow will be announced tomorrow by @andyburnham.bsky.social Read more @theguardian.com @joshhalliday.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to free mayors from ‘Treasury death grip’ with new devolved powers
Local leaders say plan will transform funding so English regions no longer rely on Whitehall handouts for projects
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Opinion | Too much of the country spends far too much time asking the government to return their own money to them 🖊️ Henri Murison Read more: trib.al/xYcO60F
Important piece from @andyburnham.bsky.social @thetimes.com Business across #North need both graduate talent & better vocational system to prepare their future workers. It’s not an either / or & the changes to education up to 16 & beyond been a long time coming www.thetimes.com/article/510c...
Andy Burnham: We’ll value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap
What is holding back our teenagers isn’t lack of ambition but the skills and experience to make the most of it, the prime minister writes
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For the avoidance of doubt, a strong London economy is essential to the UK, but that's been our industrial strategy for a long time. Other places could do better
What strikes me first is that this blog is a response to a series of business as usual op-eds. How's business as usual going, lads?
Tom Forth@tomforth.co.uk · 3mo agoIn 1998 and 1999, four of Britain's regions and nations voted for devolution. Since then, all have overperformed the rest of the country economically. Even Wales. . Also a bit of a rant about how there's more than one big city in Britain. tomforth.co.uk/agglomeratio...
Ambitious Labour ministers are displaying a sudden fascination with the idea of devolving power from London to the regions just as Andy Burnham mulls the line-up of his first cabinet. www.ft.com/content/7d89...
Labour MPs jostling for jobs under Andy Burnham discover fresh passion for devolution
Ministers talking up benefits of giving power to the regions as UK prime minister-in-waiting mulls top team
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Read @hannahalothman.bsky.social @priyabharadia.bsky.social with a long read on #No10North. Grateful to be able to give my thoughts on why it’s necessary & also practicable as after all much of media, including #BBC & @theguardian.com already here themselves & it is hugely beneficial to both
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoBurnham’s No 10 North: could two-centre government be made to work?
🎥 Our Chief Executive @henrimurison.bsky.social joined Oliver Coppard on BBC Breakfast to discuss a Number 10 in Manchester. The Northern Growth Corridor has strengths across business, innovation and public sector reform. Government is stronger when it draws on that expertise
Andy Burnham to give mayors more power in a 10 year plan They’ll be given greater control over social housing, welfare & education - with power over budgets currently spent by Whitehall He’ll also announce plans for a No 10 in Manchester
Yesterday @listentotimesradio.bsky.social discussed #Devo #economy speech @andyburnham.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKmg... I’ve also shared my view @manchestereveningnews.co.uk & will join @lbc.co.uk just after 3pm @henryriley1.bsky.social www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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NEW: Burnham to cut benefits bill by giving mayors powers to boost work inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Burnham to cut benefits bill by giving mayors powers to boost work
Andy Burnham will outline proposals to hand significant powers to mayors on Monday
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Yesterday @listentotimesradio.bsky.social discussed #Devo #economy speech @andyburnham.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKmg... I’ve also shared my view @manchestereveningnews.co.uk & will join @lbc.co.uk just after 3pm @henryriley1.bsky.social www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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And I didn’t even get into the stupid “railway line on stilts” idea. If anything encapsulates perverse regional growth policy it was that
What Manchester Piccadilly could tell us about the Burnham agenda as.ft.com/r/4762ac12-c...
The Manchester project encapsulating Burnham’s growth vision
The Piccadilly underground station under negotiations would show the vote-winning fruits of fiscal devolution
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💼🔟Moving some of No10's operations up to Manchester? Sounds brilliant - but it has to go with further devolution to see a truly empowered North 💪 @maeveschaffer.bsky.social talking to BBC North West Today, also featuring Northern Powerhouse Partnership's @henrimurison.bsky.social!
Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:
The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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Further coverage of the NPP report > AMP transformation makes Rotherham a global story www.rothbiz.co.uk/2026/06/news...
News: AMP transformation makes Rotherham a global story
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