Huw Edwards has launched a Substack in which he has endorsed Burnham’s ascension to power. Andy’s got some real weight behind him now…
Edwards, who admitted accessing indecent images of children two years ago, said in an introductory post: “I will try to post once a week. There are no plans for paid subscriptions. Thank you for even considering reading my work.” Weekly…
On Burnham’s path to power:
“When Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt withdrew, Sunak was simply the last man standing. He walked through the door of Number Ten on the strength of no meaningful mandate at all.
Now that is a ‘coronation’ in its purest form. No process, no contest, no mandate.
And yet the same commentators now fulminating at Labour’s ‘stitch-up’ spent the autumn of 2022 telling us that Sunak fully deserved the keys to Number Ten. The markets would approve. The ‘adults’ were back in the room. No talk of democratic deficit when their man was being ‘crowned’.”
He leaves it on a cautious note:
“The question is not whether he deserves a ‘coronation’. Our system facilitates his elevation in this way. The real question is what he does on the throne.
If he calls an early election, he accepts the logic of democratic renewal and rolls the dice. If he doesn’t, he is Brown — or Sunak — and the clock is ticking.”
Burnham’s got to win him over….
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.”