Does Andy Burnham’s regional strategy work for the rest of the UK?

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What does he have to say as someone who leans very heavily on his kind of northern slight sort of
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grievance narrative? What does he have to say to people like me and other Londoners and other City
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M readers in the southeast who don't share that cultural background at all? Is he speaking for
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our place? I don't think so. I do think it was odd that he mentioned Margaret Thatcher in his
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in his election video. I thought blimey, that was a long time ago. Yeah, that's a very specific
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narrative to those kind of industrial heartland that believe that they were decimated by Thatcherism
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That is not a narrative that speaks to the whole country. That's certainly not a narrative that speaks to a lot of conservatives, for example

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Does Andy Burnham’s regional strategy work for the rest of the UK?

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