UK's Burnham will pledge to be 'unashamedly Labour' as party leader
Andy Burnham will promise to be “unashamedly Labour” when he officially becomes the party’s leader on Friday before taking over from Keir Starmer as prime minister next week.
He will say in a speech that his government will have the “courage to fix the big things that politics has neglected” and the “conviction to argue for our plans”.
The former Greater Manchester mayor, who returned to Westminster last month as Makerfield member of parliament (MP), will be confirmed as Labour leader in a special conference and then enter No 10 on Monday.
Monday morning is a strenuous but somehow a glad morning in respectable households of regular habits. The clean linen is brought out in lovely white piles from the linen cupboard and distributed over the house, and the dirty linen is collected and shamefully hurried away and catalogued in a place without honour and thrown pell-mell in baskets and despatched, and then everybody has a sweet sense of relief.
Arnold Bennett - Elsie and the Child (1924)
5 comments:
Higher taxes killing all incentives.
Wild unfulfilled promises.
Above inflation pay rises to public sector ‘friends.’
Pro union legislation to shackle industry.
Increasing National Debt with no idea how to reduce it.
Hoping that ‘something will come up.’
Thanks for the clarity Andy; nothing to see here, move on.
".........his government will fix the big things....."
It's a shame he didn't fix the alleged £1.3 billion debt he left Manchester in. Perhaps it wasn't big enough?
Penseivat
Chris - yes, it's dire and already Burnham comes across as just the man to make it worse. Some are predicting he won't last long and it's easy to see why - he has nothing.
Penseivat - according to the latest info it's £1.6 billion now, he's increased it from last year. On that record alone he could turn out to be the worst ever PM.
This!
It is exactly what “unashamed Labour” will lead to.
At some point we’ll need to elect a responsible government to clean up the mess, again.
Trouble is, the mess seems to get worse with every iteration.
Peter - "the mess seems to get worse with every iteration."
Yes it does, maybe that offers an angle a reforming government needs - begin by increasing transparency so worse is seen as worse.
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