Head North by Andy Burnham

Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain by Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram — a powerful and practical call to rebalance the United Kingdom.

Britain remains deeply unequal. Too much power and opportunity are concentrated in London and the South East, while the North and other regions have faced decades of underinvestment and neglect. In this timely and personal book, Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater Manchester) and Steve Rotheram (Mayor of the Liverpool City Region) draw on their own experiences — from the Hillsborough disaster to Westminster politics and leading two of the country’s fastest-growing city regions — to diagnose the problem and offer a clear way forward.

Head North combines heartfelt memoir with a bold ten-point plan to rewire Britain. The authors argue for genuine devolution, fairer funding, stronger public services, and a political system that works for every region, not just the capital. Their vision is practical, rooted in lived experience, and focused on spreading prosperity and power more evenly across the country.

Part political manifesto, part personal story, this is an essential contribution to the debate about Britain’s future — and a rallying cry for anyone who believes a fairer, more balanced country is possible.

A Sunday Times bestseller and a clear-eyed plan for change.