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Andy Burnham: Can power in the UK be decentralised?

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The Mayor of Manchester's Commitment to Place

I'm the first mayor in England outside of London to put buses back under public control. I am purchasing electric buses in large numbers because they will come in. And my officials tell me that the buses in our timbres are the biggest cause of polluted air, and those buses will be changing dramatically later this year. But it's not an incentive-based approach. It's not the biggest punishment of all for the people of Manchester that they're still breathing in unacceptably polluted, dirty air. That's perceptive, absolutely. That's the way I do see myself. When I came to the end of my 16-year journey in Westminster, I tried to advocate for the north

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