Devolution should finance transport, skills and industry, not become a rightwing contest to promise the largest tax giveaway That England is among the rich world’s most centralised countries underpins Andy Burnham’s critique of the economic history of the past 40 years. Only post-communist Europ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/the-guardian-view-on-englands-centralised-state-andy-burnham-must-unbundle-it)