Apart from the joyous hyperactivity(极度活跃，亢奋) that comes with suddenly making it to No 10(成功入主唐宁街10号，成为首相), there are good reasons why Andy Burnham seems to be a prime minister in a hurry. If he decides that his first term is going to run to its maximum length, he has three years, which is a maddening(令人发狂的，使人恼火的) time-frame: too long for him to just tinker(小修小补，胡乱摆弄) here and there, set out his long-term vision and then ask the electorate for permission to do more, but probably too short to start and finish many of his key projects. His chosen solution, it seems, is a mixture of the strategies he would use for each approach, which includes running at some issues at breakneck pace(以极快的速度，飞快地).
除了突然入主唐宁街10号所带来的那种欢快的亢奋之外，安迪·伯纳姆之所以看起来像一位行事匆忙的首相，还有其他充分理由。如果他决定让自己的第一个任期满打满算，那么他有三年时间，这是一个令人抓狂的时间框架：长到他不能只是这里修修、那里补补，提出长远愿景，然后请求选民允许他做得更多；但又可能短到他无法启动并完成许多关键项目。他选择的解决方案似乎是各种策略的混合体，这些策略本可分别用于不同路径，其中包括以极快的速度处理某些问题。
So it is with his specialist subject: devolution for England. The huge changes now afoot(在进行中，酝酿中) actually began under Keir Starmer, with the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act passed earlier this year. Areas that previously had two tiers of local government will see them replaced with new unitary councils(单一议会，单一制地方政府). But the most historic move centres on(以……为中心，集中于) regional mayors – what the government calls “strategic authorities” – and a shift that the Whitehall PR machine is hyping up(大肆炒作，夸大宣传) as a “fundamental rewiring of the way our country works, surrendering(交出，放弃（权力等）) power that for too long has been held in Westminster and Whitehall”. In principle, this is unquestionably worth celebrating. But it also gives rise to(引起，导致) a whole range of increasingly urgent and awkward questions.
他专攻的领域也是如此：英格兰的权力下放。目前正在进行的巨大变革实际上始于基尔·斯塔默时期，今年早些时候通过了《英格兰权力下放与社区赋权法案》。以前实行两级地方政府的地区将看到它们被新的单一议会所取代。但最具历史意义的举措集中在地区市长——即政府所称的“战略当局”——以及一种转变，白厅的公关机器正将其炒作成“对我们国家运作方式的根本性重新布线，交出长期以来掌握在威斯敏斯特和白厅手中的权力”。原则上，这无疑值得庆祝。但它也引发了一系列日益紧迫和棘手的问题。
One change became clear earlier this year, and now looks like it will be turbocharged(涡轮增压的，加速的). By April 2027, regional and metro mayors will be able to keep as-yet-unspecified(尚未明确的，未具体说明的) quantities of the business rates(营业税，商业税) generated in their areas, and from the following year onwards, they will retain a share – also yet to be announced, presumably because the Treasury and No 10 North(北方唐宁街10号，指首相在北方的事务) are wrestling with(与……搏斗，努力解决) it – of local income tax receipts.
有一项变化在今年早些时候变得明朗，现在看来它将被“涡轮增压”。到2027年4月，地区市长和大都市市长将能够保留其辖区内产生的、数量尚未明确的企业税，并从次年起，他们将保留一部分地方所得税收入——具体比例也尚未公布，大概是因为财政部和“北方唐宁街10号”正在为此角力。