A Tale of Two Cities | Andy Burnham, Andy Street | Leading

What is it like to run a metropolitan area? How does devolution impact the citizens of regional areas? Does party affiliation affect mayoral decisions?

Andy Burnham, Labour Mayor for Greater Manchester, and Andy Street, Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands, meet with Rory and Alistair to discuss their two cities, their contrasting politics, and working towards their shared goal of further devolved powers for city regions.

00:00 Intro
03:26 Disagreeing agreeably
05:00 The role of Mayor
07:30 Running John Lewis vs Being Mayor
09:00 Regional structure
11:50 Accountability
14:30 Westminster
18:11 Being openly gay in politics
22:38 The impact of Whitehall on regions
25:00 Regional virtues
30:00 Compromise in British political culture
32:00 Decentralisation
37:15 'Levelling up'
40:30 regional industrial strategy
43:20 Brexit
45:28 Macro-political changes
48:55 Big events