1. The UKThe summer is Andy Burnham’s. Free from the shackles of parliamentary scrutiny and the oppressive Westminster bubble, he won’t get a much better chance to dominate the airwaves. But even with all his TikTok expertise, he can only hint at his priorities as the lingering question of how to pay for them will …
A new chapter, a new chase. Still evading those who would pin him down, Andy Burnham has done an admirable job of ducking and diving competing interests to become prime minister on Monday. Even a last minute Chancellor switcheroo can’t stop his momentum. But it does make more enemies in the growing field of those …
1. The UKAndy Burnham will become prime minister on Monday 20th July and Ed Miliband will be the new chancellor. Despite parliamentary recess, expect a flurry of potentially chaotic activity from the new administration. Burnham reportedly “wants a Bank of England moment” akin to the announcement of BOE independence within days of Blair’s landslide victory. Louise Haigh hinted at …
1. The UKThe Burnham Supremacy is assembling in the wings until PM Andy officially takes up the role on Monday 20th July. Three weeks ahead of that on Monday he will make a speech which will apparently outline his “economic vision“, or at least how devolution is a key part of that plan. The rest of the fiscal …
1. The UKThe Burnham Identity is about to give way to the Burnham Supremacy. In the early hours of Friday morning, power passes from Keir Starmer to Andy Burnham following the Makerfield by-election. The man who has lost four cabinet ministers and his chief of staff, had 100 of his own MPs and eleven trade unions call …
A Blairite, Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar; “What you having Andy?”. So runs the old joke. But in the early hours of Friday 19th June, a man born in Aintree, Merseyside, who grew up in Warrington, has governed Manchester and supports Everton Football Club will have to pick a side. Or will he? The …
1. The UKThe Burnham Supremacy approaches. Once Andy wins in Makerfield he will be carried aloft as The Great Farage Conqueror all the way into Number 10. His neighbour at No11 is likely to be Ed Miliband or Yvette Cooper, even as newspapers talk breathlessly of the role being awarded to former Transport secretary Louise Haigh and …
