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Steve Rotheram is the Labour Mayor of the Liverpool City Region and the co author of Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain.
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram quit Westminster after seeing how it made real change impossible. Speaking to Tribune, they discuss how injustices from Hillsborough to the housing crisis come from a system wired against northerners and workers everywhere.
Since Thatcher’s deregulation, the gap in public transport has become one of the starkest markers of inequality between London and the North – that’s why Liverpool’s buses are coming back under public control.