Make no mistake, when Andy Burnham said he intends to rip up the Westminster establishment by its roots and re-bed it in the North of England, he was being deadly serious.

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The former mayor of Greater Manchester will make the case for devolution and argue that Britain needs a ‘circuit breaker’