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And then really, if you're thinking about buying new properties, it's all about thinking about where are the strong economies, where's creating jobs, where's the upside for earnings.

Rather technical, but there's a great report from the Centre for Cities, which is a think tank focused on cities.

They did some fascinating analysis on just cities based on their economies and profile of jobs as to just how much earnings might rise.

So they had places like Leicester.

You know, the plan often is to reinvestment them in their areas, uh, that they want to be investing in.

The think tank, the Centre for Cities, suggests that mayors should eventually keep a share of income and corporation tax that's generated locally, while rich areas would contribute to a system designed to re-redistribute money to places that raise less.

So Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have differing ways that tax is raised and redistributed.

We know Andy Burnham is making devolution a key part of much of his speeches.

Got Andrew Carter with us who's chief executive of Centre for Cities.

Morning to you, Andrew.

Hello, Shaun.

So I'm not surprised by, by the announcement, but as I said, I haven't seen the, the detail of it.

[upbeat music] Welcome to City Talks, where we discuss the big issues facing UK cities and the latest think on an urban policy with expert guests.

I'm your host, Andrew Carter, from the think tank Centre for Cities.

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You can get all of the details on all the events and all the research that we've been talking about on our website as always, centreforcities.org.

But for now, thanks for listening.

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Honored.

And, uh, Andrew Carter is chief executive at Centre for Cities, um, an expert on urban economic policy, and he's contributed along with many others to, to the report, um, uh, that we've published.

Um, now one small warning before, before we begin.

We're, we're trying a new, uh, I hate to say gimmick, but gimmick is probably the right word-

is the city's agenda, the breakup of national governance, national government in this country and devolved administrations, not only in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but also in the so-called city regions.

And this is an interesting little article from the Centre for Cities.

The UK's Metro mayors have changed British politics in just six months.

So this is apparently a kickoff of their new Metro Mayor blog series, so that's very good.

Last week, I talked to you through this diagram, which essentially describes 30 years of Manchesterism.

So this is Andy Burnham, our new prime minister's governing philosophy, which actually, as we revealed, was developed by, largely by Jim O'Neill from Goldman Sachs and Barathon Bank.

Baron Jonathan Kestenbaum, who is now amongst other things, one of the trustees at the Rothschild Foundation and also Lord Sainsbury and his Centre for Cities, which came up in that report that you just saw from 2017.

So again, just the parallels between what was happening then and what we're seeing today are absolutely extraordinary.

Welcome to City Talks, where we discuss the big issues facing UK cities and the latest thinking on urban policy with expert guests.

I'm your host, Andrew Carter from the Think Tank Centre for Cities.

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as possible with much more to say on our over the next weeks and months ahead.

Thanks to Jess and to Ant and thank you for listening.

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You've also then got people like Lord Sainsbury sniffing around.

So he set up this thing called the Centre for Cities.

which was set up in 2005, and that was about producing research and policy to apparently drive economic growth.

This was always positioned as economic growth, but alongside that, you have this total centralisation of power into this new supposedly devolved system, but it's actually a series of interconnected city-states that are running on the same operational and technological platform, essentially, that has been specified and controlled by the people that we're talking about here.

[upbeat music] Welcome to City Talks, where we discuss the big issues facing UK cities and the latest think on an urban policy with expert guests.

I'm your host, Andrew Carter from the think tank Centre for Cities.

Enjoy the episode.

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As I said, we've been working together on these issues for the past couple of years.

Let's just start with your perspective on what's changed, let's say, since we published the report back in 2024.

Thanks, Andrew and, uh, Centre for Cities for, um, having me.

I probably ...