23-07-2026 14:00 via ft.com

How will Burnham govern? You asked, we answered

The FT’s northern England correspondent Jennifer Williams, columnist and Inside Politics writer Stephen Bush and UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley, replied to reader questions
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