Starmer is still squatting in Number 10, for now. But given how openly his Labour colleagues are pitching to succeed him, Guido is taking a closer look at what each of the leading candidates has to offer. Read at your own risk. First up, Andy Burnham…
Burnham has spent the last year telling anyone who will listen how Labour needs to take a “different path” and to be more “radical“. He did it again this morning. His fawning interview with the New Statesman just before Labour conference last year mapped out the fundamentals. Here’s what to expect if Burnham swipes the keys to Downing Street:
Nationalise the air we breathe, rejoin the EU, and borrow enough money to make even Rachel Reeves queasy. Feeling the Burn yet?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”