Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has argued that devolution ‘offers the best hope of making Brexit work for the regions and uniting our uncertain nation’.
In a speech yesterday, he said the more the Government extended the powers that Greater Manchester has to other places such as Cheshire and Yorkshire the ‘more we will be able to do for ourselves and open up a new positive chapter for our country’.
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