It will all end in flames
Burnham will be there — now as British prime minister. And that little-noticed article, published five years ago in the Evening Standard newspaper, says plenty about his political instincts on climate change. 2021 was the high point of the U.K. consensus on net zero. But the then-future prime minister criticized the summit for giving a “pulpit” to billionaire Jeff Bezos (who had earlier that...
Continue Reading on https://www.politico.eu/uk/Andy Burnham has admitted he cares less than previous prime ministers about what right-wing media outlets such as the Sun and Daily Mail think about him. Ever since moving into Number 10 Downing Street, Burnham has made clear he is going to try and do things differently when it comes to his messaging and communication strategy. One of the main ways this has shown itself is in the Labour...
Continue Reading on https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/Andy Burnham needs more than ‘breathing space’ Andy Burnham entered Downing Street in July vowing to reverse the “wrong turns” of British statecraft over the past 40 years. He cast his new administration as a “circuit breaker”, promising a programmatic antidote to deindustrialisation, regional inequality and popular disaffection – the damage wrought on the body politic by decades of...
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