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Burnham calls for major Whitehall reforms for regions
Bristol Post
|January 14, 2026
ANDY Burnham has criticised having to “fight endlessly” in an “attritional battle” with Whitehall departments “resisting” growth-driving devolution as he called for a Westminster overhaul.
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Speaking virtually on an Institute for Government panel on civil service reform, the mayor of Greater Manchester said: “It's not justified, I don't think, for departments still to be resisting devolution. Devolution is the direction. Devolution is bringing growth, not just here, but in other city regions as well.
This story is from the January 14, 2026 edition of Bristol Post.
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