Politics
Scotland and Wales tell Burnham local devolution is their call alone
Scotland's first minister John Swinney and Wales's Rhun ap Iorwerth have told Andy Burnham that decisions on further local devolution rest solely with Holyrood and the Senedd, not Westminster. Their response follows the prime minister's push to extend English-style regional powers across the UK, after talks in Glasgow on localised employment and reindustrialisation powers that Downing Street called constructive.

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