After months of attacking Starmer and Reeves’ Downing Street operation Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is fleshing out his policy platform. The King in the North has been a thorn in the PM’s side since he entered Downing Street…
Delivering his ‘alternative left policy programme’ in London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub on Saturday, Burnham launched a scathing attack on the actual Labour leader, (and not for the first time) offering up his own policy ideas instead. Looking suspiciously like a leadership manifesto…
Burnham went on to say Labour needs to work on a “substantially new offer for the public” that “speaks to the ambition of all of those people, all of those places that have felt modern politics has ignored them”. A little outside his brief…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”