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Asked who Andy Burnham should pick as his chancellor, Badenoch replied:

I know that it should not be Ed Miliband. He is the single person who has done the most to deindustrialise our country and make us poorer. He should not be rewarded with an even more powerful job where he can completely bankrupt the country.

As a secretary of state, there were many times that I had to go to No 10 and then go into parliament. I wouldn’t have been able to do that if I had to go up and down to Manchester at the same time.

We did have a second Treasury campus in the north. That was for civil servants. It was for other ministers. It was not for the prime minister.