{"id":660814,"date":"2026-06-27T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660814\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:48:09","slug":"andy-burnham-in-number-10-would-give-north-fair-crack-of-the-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660814\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham in Number 10 would give North &#8216;fair crack of the whip&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leader of a council has said an Andy Burnham premiership could benefit the north of England, as the area is set for improvements to rail links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warrington is to become a stop on a new rail link between Liverpool and Manchester, which is to be built as part of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warrington Council&#8217;s Hans Mundry told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000dk0r\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Politics North West<\/a> that he believes having a northern prime minister would make sure the area was &#8220;definitely in the mix&#8221; for &#8220;getting a fair crack of the whip&#8221; for future investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A masterplan has been launched for the area around Bank Quay Station, which would include thousands of new homes as well as commercial space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the plans for NPR, a new route will run between Manchester and Liverpool with stops at Manchester Airport and Warrington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s serious, it&#8217;s going to happen but it&#8217;s just a question of the time it&#8217;s going to take,&#8221; said Mundry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mundry added that Warrington was not originally planned as a stop on NPR, but the area got &#8220;drawn in&#8221; after putting a case forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The economic growth that Warrington can offer to the whole region is what we want to benefit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leader of a council has said an Andy Burnham premiership could benefit the north of England, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660814","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=660814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}