Andy Burnham is a prime Labour leader candidate, but also a mayor. That’s a problem | Martin Kettle

Piecemeal devolution and a mess of Westminster rules are creating barriers, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Piecemeal devolution and a mess of Westminster rules are preventing political talent playing a bigger role in British public lifePhotograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Imagesproblem in British politics. Yet the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester is more a victim than a source of it. Nor is the problem confined to him, or indeed to the Labour party. The same thing applies in all the parties. It is structural, cultural, very British, and it needs addressing.

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