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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Bethan McKernan, Wales correspondent

UNBELIEVABLE: Celtic leaders doubt burnhams devolution drive will go beyond englands borders | History Defined

Andy Burnham speaks and gestures with one hand at a lectern
Andy Burnham told an audience in Manchester that devolved powers for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland must go ‘deeper down’, but did not give details. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

Andy Burnham’s devolution promises are yet to impress sceptical Celtic administrations hoping for a reset with Westminster, sources in Cardiff and Edinburgh have said.

Burnham, who is expected to take over from Keir Starmer as prime minister on 20 July, has made much of his support for the devolution of power and resources in England, pledging in an agenda-setting speech last week to make a new “No 10 North” the “nerve centre of a rewired Britain”.

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