John Healey has just arrived in the Treasury. He is a surprise choice as Chancellor but perhaps should not have been. He spent half a decade in Gordon Brown’s Treasury with specific knowledge of that era’s attempt to regenerate and devolve power - the Regional Development Agencies, later scrapped by the Coalition Government. He co wrote nerdy regionalism pamphlets with @edballs NUmber 10 is stressing that Andy Burnham and John Healey “have the same outlook” on the need to maintain economic stabi