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On the road to Downing Street, Andy Burnham promised a new dawn for Britain’s towns and high streets.

For too long places outside the big cities had been “forgotten or written off”, he argued after the Makerfield byelection. To help towns like those in his constituency, he said his government would make sure that the places Westminster had neglected would now get fairness.