The Guardian view on England’s centralised state: Andy Burnham must unbundle it | Editorial
Andy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday. Photograph: Annabel Lee-Ellis/Pool PA/APView image in fullscreenAndy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday. Only post-communist Europe deindustrialised as rapidly as Yorkshire and the Midlands did in the 1980s.
- ▪Andy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday.
- ▪Photograph: Annabel Lee-Ellis/Pool PA/APView image in fullscreenAndy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday.
- ▪Only post-communist Europe deindustrialised as rapidly as Yorkshire and the Midlands did in the 1980s.
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| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:32:06 GMT |
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Andy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday. Photograph: Annabel Lee-Ellis/Pool PA/APView image in fullscreenAndy Burnham and Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, at a family centre in Sheffield on Friday. Photograph: Annabel Lee-Ellis/Pool PA/APOpinionDevolutionThe Guardian view on England’s centralised state: Andy Burnham must unbundle itEditorialDevolution should finance transport, skills and industry, not become a rightwing contest to promise the largest tax giveawayFri 31 Jul 2026 12.32 EDTLast modified on Fri 31 Jul 2026 12.34 EDTShareThat England is among the rich world’s most centralised countries underpins Andy Burnham’s critique of the economic history of the past 40 years.
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