Andy Burnham’s Economic Vision | Devolution, Public Control & The New Southwark Coalition.

Andy Burnham just laid out a radical new blueprint for the UK economy, shifting power away from Whitehall to a new “Number 10 North” in Greater Manchester. We discuss this means for business, devolution, and the markets.

We also sit down with Councillor Victor Chamberlain, the new Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader of Southwark, to discuss the historic Lib Dem-Green joint administration and how it plans to tackle an £85 million budget black hole. Chamberlain also explains the multi-borough legal challenge against the Mayor of London’s emergency measures package, which reduced fast-track affordable housing requirements from 35% to 20%. Addressing the argument that “35% of nothing is nothing,” he explains why lowering affordable housing targets is, in his view, a race to the bottom that risks locking middle-income workers out of central London.