In the run-up to his coup against Sir Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham was sold to wavering Labour MPs as the ultimate ‘man of the people’. It was Burnham, his supporters argued, who ‘gets it’ in a way that the out-of-touch London lawyer Sir Keir simply did not. Only Burnham understood the frustrations, fears and hopes of the swathes of voters turning to Nigel Farage for answers. Only he could win back traditional Labour supporters in former heartlands from Reform. Yet Burnham this week demonstrated just how strikingly the reality has failed to live up to the sell. In an interview...
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