Can this man govern Britain? (Can anyone?)
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ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, England — The most pivotal decision of Andy Burnham’s political life was made, like all the best decisions, in the pub.
Over pints of lager on London’s Horseferry Road, Burnham told his friend Steve Rotheram he was quitting Parliament and heading home, 200 miles from London to the northwest of England, to run for mayor of the post-industrial Greater Manchester region.
This was radical stuff for British politics in 2016. Burnham was one of the Labour Party’s most senio
Over pints of lager on London’s Horseferry Road, Burnham told his friend Steve Rotheram he was quitting Parliament and heading home, 200 miles from London to the northwest of England, to run for mayor of the post-industrial Greater Manchester region.
This was radical stuff for British politics in 2016. Burnham was one of the Labour Party’s most senio
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