Britain’s newly appointed – but not elected – Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced he will be working remotely Friday and not from the national capital London beginning what he sees as a long term move north.

The leftist Labour leader has fled the nation’s administrative heart in Whitehall for Manchester, establishing a regional base at Heron House in the city centre with its own protected bubble, in defiance of those who see his task as governing for all and not just his own electorate where he once presided as mayor.

Burnham claims his aim is to shift power from Westminster to the rest of the country even as the civil service for the most…

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