But what Burnham was describing here felt more significant than the relocation of staff. This No 10 North would have specific responsibility for the “biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar period”, he said, raising some questions about the role of the Ministry of Housing and perhaps suggesting that a wider shakeup of the machinery of government is in the offing.
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