"Burnham's devolution risks putting Britain on a road to disaster"

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Article in Daily Telegraph re. the decentralisation policy of the incoming UK PM Andy Burnham

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Two quotations from Esmond Birnie:

"Do not assume that devolution per se leads to better policymaking, because can have a problem that it just gives greater power to vested interests and stakeholder groups".

 

"When you drill down into it, there's not a great deal of evidence that the quarter of a century of devolutin has actually uplifted economic performance in the 3 devolved nations".