Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 October 2016.
I had thought that Andy Burnham would require a degree of intellectual dexterity to relate the question to Leigh or Manchester, but he might have been saved by the Secretary of State’s referring, perhaps gratuitously, to all regions. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is a beneficiary of that.