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Why spreading the AI boom might be harder than Andy Burnham thinks
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June 30, 2026
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1:41Now PlayingSky's technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe looks at new data showing an increase in AI investment in Britain and London under Keir Starmer's government.
He asks what could come next under Andy Burnham, whose focus on devolution and spreading growth beyond London may run up against two powerful forces: an AI sector still heavily concentrated in the capital and the UK’s wider push to become a global player in artificial intelligence.
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