00:00You're all very welcome to this meeting of the National Economic Council with the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales
00:09and colleagues as well.
00:11Obviously speaking as a former mayor, I saw how Greater Manchester was able to go on a very different track.
00:20I'll be honest and say I looked at the world differently and perhaps saw it more from Scotland and Wales
00:28point of view when we were making that case for Greater Devolved Power.
00:34What happened was that ability to set our own path, set high ambitions for industry and a decade on the
00:44results are there to see.
