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MANCHESTER, England (AP) \u2014 Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a \u201ccircuit-breaker\u201d for the sclerotic British state.<\/p>\n

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The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime minister\u2019s office from London\u2019s 10 Downing St. to northwest England as part of \u201cthe biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowth cannot be ordered from the top down. Instead, it can only be nurtured from the bottom up,\u201d Burnham said in a speech aimed at bringing voters, Labour Party colleagues and financial markets up to speed with his economic vision.<\/p>\n

Burnham is the strong favorite to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf councils can\u2019t fix potholes, what chance do they have of bringing forward major regeneration schemes to get growth going?\u201d Burnham said. He set out a 10-year plan to get \u201cgood growth in every postcode,\u201d in a country where wealth and power are concentrated in London and the south of England.<\/p>\n

He said he would reverse almost two decades of low growth since the 2008 financial crisis through an approach dubbed \u201cManchesterism\u201d \u2014 harnessing private and public money to invest in areas like transport, housing and infrastructure. He also pledged to create new industrial jobs and better educational opportunities, and to reform the U.K.\u2019s inefficient and expensive privatized water and energy utilities.<\/p>\n

Moving the new \u2018No. 10 North\u2019 to Manchester<\/p>\n

During the speech at the People\u2019s History Museum in the city where he spent nine years as mayor, Burnham said a new government office in Manchester \u2013 dubbed \u201cNo. 10 North\u201d \u2014 would oversee regional development and become \u201cthe nerve center of a rewired Britain,\u201d tasked with equalizing living standards across the country. Regional mayors would get more power over housing, welfare and education as part of his planned reforms.<\/p>\n

Burnham\u2019s rousing speech was short on specifics about where the government would find more money, and he didn\u2019t take questions from journalists.<\/p>\n

Burnham won praise for his role in revitalizing and regenerating Manchester, but he has not served in a U.K. government for almost two decades, and may struggle to replicate \u201cManchesterism\u201d on a U.K.-wide scale.<\/p>\n

The Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, said Burnham is right to focus on \u201crebalancing Britain.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.K.\u2019s concentration of power and opportunity in Westminster has held back growth, productivity and living standards for too long,\u201d said IPPR Executive Director Harry Quilter-Pinner. \u201cThe real test now is delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matthew Flinders, a politics professor at the University of Sheffield, said replicating Burnham\u2019s Manchester approach on a national level would require \u201ca fundamental shift” in the way politics is done in Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the heart of that would be moving from a very traditional, elitist, centralized model of politics toward something that is in many ways far more European, far more based on power-sharing in order to develop long-term policymaking capacity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Burnham is likely to inherit Starmer’s challenges<\/p>\n

Burnham will be aware that Starmer also announced a 10-year mission \u2014 the equivalent of two full terms in government \u2014- to transform Britain soon after he was elected in a landslide in July 2024. Starmer is leaving after two years in office marred by missteps and judgment errors that eroded his standing with his party and the public.<\/p>\n

Burnham won a special election for a seat in Parliament on June 18 and was sworn in as a lawmaker on June 22, the same day Starmer announced that he will resign as soon as a successor is chosen.<\/p>\n

Burnham is so far the only contender in the Labour Party leadership contest. If no one challenges him, he will become prime minister by July 20.<\/p>\n

While Burnham is considered more charismatic than the stolid Starmer, he will face many of the same political and economic challenges, including a sluggish economy, tattered public services and a cost-of-living squeeze. He will also be constrained by the platform the center-left Labour Party was elected on in 2024, with its pledges not to increase taxes on working people.<\/p>\n

And like other NATO countries, the U.K. is under pressure to dramatically increase defense spending to counter a more aggressive Russia and less reliable United States.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s long-awaited defense investment plan \u2014 which sparked the resignation of Defense Secretary John Healey on June 11 \u2014 is expected to be published before a NATO summit in Turkey on July 7 and 8. Starmer\u2019s successor will be expected to stick to the commitments in the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Burnham\u2019s big idea is to shuffle power between politicians,\u201d said opposition Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake. \u201cNot fix the welfare system. Not cut the taxes strangling working families and British business. Not fund the defense our country desperately needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lawless reported from London. Associated Press Writer Brian Melley contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

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