{"id":2861,"date":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","slug":"why-andy-burnhams-devolution-pledge-will-be-tricky-to-deliver-richard-partington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Why Andy Burnham\u2019s devolution pledge will be tricky to deliver | Richard Partington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing income tax with England\u2019s regional mayors could tackle inequality but many councils are ill-equipped for an enlarged role<\/p>\n<p>On the road to Downing Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/andyburnham\">Andy Burnham<\/a> promised to transfer power from Westminster to every postcode in the country. After his first two weeks in office, the size and complexity of this project are becoming clearer.<\/p>\n<p>With a date set for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jul\/31\/john-healey-budget-late-october\">autumn budget<\/a>, the work of filling in the detail that will underpin his devolution plans begins \u2013 starting with his proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jul\/30\/burnham-mayors-income-tax-business-rates-devolution\">hand England\u2019s regional mayors a share of income tax<\/a> to support local economic development.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/aug\/02\/andy-burnham-devolution-pledge-tricky-deliver-inequality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/aug\/02\/andy-burnham-devolution-pledge-tricky-deliver-inequality' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing income tax with England\u2019s regional mayors could tackle inequality but many councils are ill-equipped for an enlarged role On the road to Downing Street, Andy Burnham promised to transfer power from Westminster to every postcode in the country. After his first two weeks in office, the size and complexity of this project are becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}