{"id":4908,"date":"2026-07-24T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/burnham-to-spend-first-day-working-from-northern-branch-of-no-10\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:22:32","slug":"burnham-to-spend-first-day-working-from-northern-branch-of-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/burnham-to-spend-first-day-working-from-northern-branch-of-no-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham to spend first day working from northern branch of No 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burnham to spend first day working from northern branch of No 10<\/p>\n<div data-block=\"headline\" class=\"ssrcss-l7emlr-ComponentWrapper e1aon0op1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-usmnse-Spacer e1aon0op0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"image\" class=\"ssrcss-l7emlr-ComponentWrapper e1aon0op1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-126h8e-Spacer e1aon0op0\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"ssrcss-1uy5kw5-FullWidthWrapper 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\/><\/svg><\/span>3158 Comments<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-1ey53kj-MetadataSnippetWrapper exhp0uq0\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1pvwv4b-MetadataSnippet e4wm5bw3\"><span class=\"ssrcss-61mhsj-MetadataText e4wm5bw1\"><time data-testid=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2026-07-24T07:15:22.880Z\">Updated 2 hours ago<\/time><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"text\" class=\"ssrcss-vxwoax-ComponentWrapper e1aon0op1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-126h8e-Spacer e1aon0op0\">\n<div data-testid=\"rich-text\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-nqezkk-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Andy Burnham will hold his first meeting at the new No 10 North in Manchester later on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The branch of Downing Street in the North West will form part of the prime minister&#8217;s aim to shift power from Whitehall and Westminster to regions across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers Lucy Powell and Louise Haigh will also operate regularly from the new site, with up to 300 civil servants expected to join them by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday in Manchester, Burnham will chair a meeting of the National Economic Council, a cabinet committee first launched in 2008 to respond to economic challenges around the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meeting will bring together senior ministers and regional mayors to &#8220;put devolution at the centre of the government&#8217;s mission to make Britain better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of that meeting, the prime minister said: &#8220;For 40 years, power and resources have been sucked into the centre, and too many communities have felt forgotten, without the attention and investment they 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growth policy, to allow civil servants, mayors, councils and businesses to work together more closely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnham&#8217;s first week in power has seen him make a series of interventions aimed at easing the cost of living, including announcing a 20% cut in business rates for pubs, social clubs and live music venues from April next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised his ambitions for being &#8220;too small&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on Thursday, she urged him to tackle high energy costs for businesses as well as a gap in defence funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you are mayor of Manchester, you are handed a big pot of someone else&#8217;s money, and you decide where to spend it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure 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