Andy Burnham

Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?

Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything

Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right

Andy Burnham must get a grip on spending rather than squeezing the taxpayer

Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete

Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of

It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto

Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms

Think central government is the only problem? Look around you

The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer