Burnham establishes a new government headquarters in Manchester as a sign of her declared desire for decentralization

“For 40 years, power and resources have been concentrated in central government, and too many communities have felt forgotten, without the attention or investment they deserve,” Burnham argued in a statement in which she assures that “number 10 North (the name given to the headquarters located in Downing Street, London) will change this situation, giving greater power to each postcode in the country.”

Specifically, Heron House, located in the center of Manchester, “will be the crisis room to improve Britain: the place we will use to transfer power from Westminster to citizens at a local level, so they can transform the situation.” “The days when Whitehall resisted decentralization are definitely over,” he said.

In the same statement, sent by his office, he points out that the prime minister will work from ’10 North’ “every week, so that decisions about the country’s economic future are no longer made exclusively in Westminster.” “Other ministers will also work regularly from 10 North, which underlines this Government’s determination to do things differently,” he adds.

This work will begin this Friday, when Burnham will chair the first meeting of the now reactivated National Economic Council at the aforementioned offices. There “it will bring together senior ministers and regional mayors to place decentralization at the center of the Government’s mission to improve Britain,” the text notes.