Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has done a fawning interview for the cover of the New Statesman ahead of Labour Conference. Convenient timing…
Burnham waxed lyrical about his love of poetry in a jab at Starmer, who famously doesn’t have a favourite poem, before moaning about the hardship of being both “a good student and one of the lads” at school. Burnham was brought up in Liverpool prior to attending Fitzilliam College, Cambridge…
He then unveiled his grand vision for the country – or as he calls it, his “Manchesterism.” Nationalise everything that moves…
He argues that Labour should:
He promises to push this madness onto the party at Labour Conference:
“Can we agree on a plan to turn this country around by retaking control of those essentials and being bold about it? I’m going to put the question back to people at Labour conference: are we up for that wholesale change? Because I think that’s what the country needs. I’m happy to play any role. I am ready to play any role in that. Yes. Because the threat we’re facing is increasingly an existential one.”
He adds that he’s willing to work with the LibDems as well as Jeremy Corbyn to fulfil his vision. Tanks on Starmer’s lawn…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”