{"id":646898,"date":"2026-06-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646898\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:00:08","slug":"burnham-wins-makerfield-and-the-pmi-market-has-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646898\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham wins Makerfield &#8211; and the PMI market has a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His broader governing philosophy, which he calls &#8220;Manchesterism&#8221;, extends that logic. As he told the Cambridge Bennett School in March 2026, the approach proposes &#8220;a fundamental shift away from Westminster&#8217;s centralised, top-down mandates toward a streamlined, place-based delivery model&#8221; &#8211; one in which &#8220;public control is a prerequisite for growth, rather than a reward for it.&#8221; He points to Greater Manchester&#8217;s Bee Network, which brought bus services back under public authority control at a third cheaper per kilometre than its privatised predecessor, as the template. Healthcare, in Burnham&#8217;s framing, sits in the same category as transport and housing: a public good that market logic has distorted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His broader governing philosophy, which he calls &#8220;Manchesterism&#8221;, extends that logic. As he told the Cambridge Bennett School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19306,59,57,58,2053,50,22829,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-pmi","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}