All In: The must-read manifesto for the future of Britain

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Globalisation – and, in particular, the role of the Chinese economy as a source of cheap labour – saw 6m British manufacturing jobs disappear. We walked through the smell of fresh paint to the offices of Wigan Athletic Community Trust, an outreach programme run under the direction of Tom Flower.

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At 4am on 7 May 2010, only Winstanley and Nandy were left, with her partner Andy Collis, a public relations consultant, and her mother in the audience. The case was another illustration of how the north could run itself better, she said, if only it were allowed to. During this criticism, she remained complimentary of Burnham’s decision to introduce the Bee Network to Wigan, Bolton and Bury first.She was formerly deputy editor at online magazine Design Week and has written for, amongst others, The Guardian and Raconteur. She got a sticker to mark the shared victory – though she was annoyed to see it was a gendered one, for the mums. Levelling up was killed off a long time ago,” she added; it was only ever an attempt to keep Red Wall voters within the Conservatives’ electoral coalition. Lisa Nandy MP talked about devolution, Manchester and the cities-town divide when introducing her new book at the Manchester Literature Festival.

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She has an above-average ability to negotiate ring roads and sustain detailed conversation at the same time. She remembers Harold Macmillan and Tony Blair and she thinks I’m the one to do it,” Nandy said – meaning lead Labour to victory. But I also found it exciting, because it looked as if there could be a consensus that we couldn’t go on like this. At the talk on 19 October she mentioned a move towards more power to devolved governments and increased diversity in politics. With the Conservative leadership race now a two-way contest between a woman and a person of colour, her background could be a political asset for an opposition party that has only ever been led by a white man.According to Nandy, hoarding power in Whitehall has, for too long, been the main stumbling block for so many areas of policy. She comes across as warm, open, caring and relatable and does a decent job of leaving current party politics out of this book and focusing on the topics without apportioning blame. The former Labour minister Margaret Hodge told me Nandy was “one of the great assets of the shadow front bench. Starmer was, she said, “far more responsive to the issue than most people, really easy to work with”. And we ended up with me, Keir and Becky – two people who I came to like a lot – on a stage in the Midlands, everybody acknowledging that things had to change.

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The power of unions diminished accordingly and was further undermined by successive Thatcher governments. This is why, when the rush to attend Prime Minister’s Questions begins on a Wednesday morning, almost without exception, I’m found heading in the other direction. Hopefully a revised edition will be released soon that can correct some of the basic editorial shortcomings.But the will to win among party members is so great they might vote for someone who turned the page on the past. However, the book also highlights stories where the community came together to fight for a better area, from the local pub to the hospital porters, demonstrating that despite the negativity and doomsayers, the fabric of community is still there lying underneath the hot air of our divisions. The Wigan MP was formerly the Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up for two years, and she talked about how Manchester has benefited from Levelling Up. Indeed, the introduction of the book goes into detail on how she and the community fought to save Wigan Athletic when they went into administration in 2019 after being taken over. Their relationship cooled through the Corbyn years – “We were on different sides of the question about the leadership, and Brexit” – before warming during the leadership contest.