Ex-Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins seeking judicial review over his sacking – UK politics live

Robbins is suing the government over Keir Starmer's decision to sack him as permanent secretary at the Foreign Office

Back to Andy Burnham, and Dan Bloom has a good long read at Politico about Burnham's plans to impose devolution on the civil service. Bloom says there is talk of a Bank of England" moment.

It will be hard to wrestle a head-turning policy announcement from structural reforms to the state, though his allies are discussing a potential big bang early on.

One ally of Burnham recalled Gordon Brown's announcement that the Bank of England would be made independent, four days after he became Labour's finance minister in 1997. The person said: He wants a Bank of England moment."

It's about forcing the civil service to understand this is not just data on a graph," said one Labour MP allied to Burnham. Once you have a base where you can't get free affordable integrated transport that gets you somewhere within 20 minutes easily, it changes perspectives pretty much overnight."

Civil servants and Burnham's allies are unanimous that No. 10 North will only be more than a gimmick if people with real power (including Burnham) spend serious time in Manchester - forcing Westminster's lobbyist and journalist ecosystem to move with them. [Lucy] Powell predicted big chunks" of Whitehall power will leave the capital. [Steve] Rotheram said: You can't have a No. 10 and then just have a load of junior officials there."

The senior civil servant quoted above said a key test will be whether the No. 10 policy unit ends up based permanently in the northern version of Downing Street.