The country’s likely next prime minister sketches a post-Thatcherite state built on radical devolution. The test is whether Whitehall yields Andy Burnham is not prime minister of the UK – yet. His speech on Monday at the People’s History Museum in Manchester might be read as campaign fodder.

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/29/the-guardian-view-on-andy-burnhams-speech-rewiring-britain-needs-westminster-to-give-up-real-power)

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