Andy Burnham should show London he cares by funding this one transport project

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The ascendancy of the ‘King of the North’ has spooked London.

James Ford outlines that this can easily be fixed by greenlighting the West London Orbital Railway London is anxious.

The new Prime Minister is not just something of an unknown quantity, but – worse still – he is (whisper it quietly) Northern.

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