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Burnham Proposes “No 10 North” Tax Devolution, Mayors Retain Revenue

6/29/2026

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Summary

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Labour MP Andy Burnham’s proposal would let mayors keep a share of generated taxes, a fiscal devolution in decades.
Labour MP Andy Burnham will deliver a speech in Manchester on June 29, 2026 outlining “No 10 North” devolution.
Former Treasury minister Lord Jim O’Neill and former Bank of England economist Andy Haldane pledged to follow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules requiring spending to be funded by revenue and debt to fall by 2029-30.

History

Historical Context

Labour’s 1997 manifesto called for a directly elected London mayor, a policy first raised by MP Tony Banks in 1990. After a May 1998 referendum approved the plan with 72 % support, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 created the mayoralty, and Ken Livingstone won the inaugural 2000 election. Andy Burnham’s proposal to let English mayors keep a share of locally generated taxes echoes that 1998 devolution model.

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Story summary

Labour MP Andy Burnham’s proposal would let mayors keep a share of generated taxes, a fiscal devolution in decades.
Labour MP Andy Burnham will deliver a speech in Manchester on June 29, 2026 outlining “No 10 North” devolution.
Former Treasury minister Lord Jim O’Neill and former Bank of England economist Andy Haldane pledged to follow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules requiring spending to be funded by revenue and debt to fall by 2029-30.

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