UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivered opening remarks on camera at the national economic council meeting in Glasgow. He stressed that he wanted to be cooperative and proposed looking at a model of deeper devolution in Scotland and Wales. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.

Burnham said: "What I want to do is set the tone which is one of positive offer to work with both the Scottish and Welsh governments, in terms of looking at a model of deeper devolution in Scotland and Wales."

Referring to John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth using their first names, not their titles, Burnham also said that he hoped they had seen enough of him as PM to know that he was serious about wanting "problem solving rather than point scoring". He also said he wanted to "draw a line", implying previous relations with the devolved governments weren't ideal.

He said that, while he wanted "deeper devolution", "obviously, it's for the devolved governments to determine the shape and the structure of that".

He suggested his experience as mayor of Greater Manchester had made him more inclined to see Westminster the way Scotland and Wales did. He said: "Obviously, speaking as a former mayor, I saw how Greater Manchester was able to go on a very different track to the one that we'd been on pre the arrival of devolved powers in Greater Manchester. I'll be honest, I looked at the world differently, and perhaps more from Scotland and Wales' point of view, when we were making that case for a greater level of power."

He said, using devolved powers, as mayor he was able to set "high ambitions" for Manchester – "and a decade on the results are there to see."

He said he wanted Westminster to work "in a more collaborative way" with the devolved governments.

He said that Britain in the past had not been particularly good at handling "industrial transition" and that he wanted to change this. He recalled visiting the site of the Ravenscraig steelworks near Motherwell recently, saying: "I was on the site of Ravenscraig and … I used to hear that word in the news when I was growing up. I only then, when I was there, understood the scale of what that industry once was, and how the country didn't help those communities through industrial transition."

You could say the same of Port Talbot in south Wales, he said. He said what was happening in Port Talbot was a model of industrial transition.

He expressed regret that Northern Ireland's first minister and deputy first minister weren't at the meeting.