Andy Burnham has promised "the biggest rebalancing of power" the country has seen, in his first major speech explaining what he will do if, almost certainly when, he becomes prime minister in three weeks time.

Andy Burnham is set to unveil plans to transfer power from Whitehall to a “Number 10 in the North" in a speech in Manchester.

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