{"id":102808,"date":"2025-05-15T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/102808\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:27:12","slug":"andy-burnham-says-investment-in-north-needed-after-election-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/102808\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham says investment in north needed after election losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The northern mayors have asked the government to commit to the new railway in its June spending review, with the aim of work starting in the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report commissioned by the Liverpool-Manchester Railway Board found its construction would deliver an estimated \u00a315 billion boost to the economy and create 22,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnham said he recognised the financial pressures facing Chancellor Rachel Reeves, but added &#8220;significant resource&#8221; was going into the construction of HS2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Put in place the development funding to help us work with our private sector partners to put in place the designs and the plans to make this real. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe it&#8217;s the right ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it made &#8220;complete sense&#8221; for the government to back the project while the &#8220;world rail industry&#8221; was already in the UK working on the high-speed line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northern mayors have asked the government to commit to the new railway in its June spending review,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-102808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114510433496967949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}