Groundworks began at the site in Ancoats last month. The government has previously said it will be the workplace for around \u201c8,800 people from multiple government departments with a focus on digital delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnham did not set out a timescale for the creation of \u201cNo. 10 North\u201d or discuss how many people it could involve. However, he has said it will be tasked with reforming utilities, regeneration and reindustrializing Britain, centralizing many powers held elsewhere in Whitehall.<\/p>\n
In the wide-ranging interview, Burnham also said the whipping system in Westminster should not be used to \u201cpunish\u201d MPs and said he would be willing to work with opposition parties to tackle the issue of gangs, many of them in northern towns, grooming and sexually abusing young women.<\/p>\n
Burnham has been accused of avoiding scrutiny after he went weeks without giving an extended interview. Even on Thursday, he was a long way from clearing up all questions.<\/p>\n
Asked if he would grant a public holiday if England\u2019s soccer team wins the World Cup, Burnham faltered, noting that it would be premature given the tough match looming on Monday against Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe only beat \u2026 we struggled, let\u2019s say,\u201d he said, a day after England narrowly remained in the tournament by clinching a late 2-1 win over the Democratic Republic of Congo thanks to team captain Harry Kane. \u201cI think we might be getting ahead of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groundworks began at the site in Ancoats last month. The government has previously said it will be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[215226,19306,458,140,1109,9610,1344,309,4176,59,57,58,1349,420,50,56,54,55,476],"class_list":["post-670533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-andy-burnham","tag-budget","tag-defense","tag-digital","tag-ed-miliband","tag-energy","tag-england","tag-finance","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-insurance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670533","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=670533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}