Andy Burnham's Devolution Plans Should Look to London, Not Manchester

Ashington is an old coal mining town in the North East of England that fell by the wayside during the deindustrialisation of the Margaret Thatcher era. Its last pit closed in 1986 and its largest employer, an aluminum smelter, shut down in 2012.

Andy Burnham said Sir Sadiq Khan and other regional leaders in England will get to keep a portion of income tax and business rates to spend as part of a major devolution shake-up