Burnham has arrived on a wave of hype, but his vague promises and nostalgia-heavy agenda look no more workable than Starmer’s
Earlier this week, Andy Burnham traipsed out to Buckingham Palace, symbolically kissed the hands of King Charles III – as tradition demanded – and the “King of the North” was duly anointed the new UK prime minister.
Amidst the subsequent euphoria within the Labour Party, the fact that Burnham’s swift rise to the prime ministership was the result of the brutally executed political coup that had deposed his predecessor – the now patently unelectable Keir Starmer – was not mentioned.
Also glossed over was the fact that the…
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