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Burnham says Britain went astray

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first speech at the Labour Party conference to say Britain had followed the wrong path, blaming deindustrialization, deregulation, privatization, austerity and Brexit.

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I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments | Owen Jones

The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed As Andy Burnham delivered his conference speech to the Labour faithful yesterday, it was hard not to recall Jeremy Corbyn’s words after the party’s shattering 2019 election defeat. “I am proud that on austerity, on corporate power, on inequality and the climate emergency, ” he wrote for this publication, “we have won the arguments and rewritten the terms of political debate. ” Given Boris Johnson’s 80-seat majority, widespread mockery ensued. But when it comes to rhetoric, who can now deny that the left has won the argument? A Labour prime minister has declared that “Britain has been on the wrong path for a long time”, listing five villains: “Deindustrialisation, deregulation, privatisation, austerity, Brexit. ” His speech was infused with class politics, as he condemned a society “run for vested interests, not in the public interest, with power held in too few hands”. Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist. His latest book, The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It, is published on 1 October. Order your copy at the Guardian bookshop Continue reading. . .

I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments | Owen Jones
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What the gaps in Andy Burnham’s speech reveal

A lot has been said about the prime minister’s first speech as leader at the Labour Party conference. But what didn’t Andy Burnham say? Have the public understood the new PM’s big policy offer? And why was there nothing substantial on welfare reform? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the headline polling on the Burnham […]

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