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• Andy Burnham’s NHS record: Devolution, delivery and the limits of local power (Iain Donaldson)
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• Andy Burnham’s record on policing: Success story or missed opportunity? (Iain Donaldson)
• Burnham: Strategic implications (Paul Reynolds)
• The Brexit Referendum – 10 years on (Callum Robertson)

• Lib Dems pick Richard Kilpatrick as candidate for the Greater Manchester Mayoral election
• The Joy of Six 1538
• Professor Joad sees his play at the Theatre Royal, Northampton
• The DVLA's problem with number plates
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: The Night
• School uniform, boys in skirts and Marcuse's 'repressive tolerance'
• We have no idea what history will say about Keir Starmer and it may not be right anyway
• Lib Dem billboards attack Farage's £5m "reward for Brexit"
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