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Burnham echoes rivals, rejects policies

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham adopted opponents’ combative messaging to appeal to disaffected voters, while rejecting their policies as he sought to bring them back to Labour.

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Polanski’s Greens look for their next opening

The left-wing populist party nudged Keir Starmer out of office, but now Andy Burnham is drawing satisfied protest voters back to Labour.

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The Guardian
For too long, only the right has expanded the boundaries of what governments can do. Can Burnham change that? | Andy Beckett

The PM might come across as a nice bloke but he is politically ruthless. He will need to be if he is to turn big talk into big changes How much can a Labour government change the country? According to many voters, journalists and politicians, including plenty in the party itself, the answer to that stubbornly recurring question has always been: not that much. Labour governments can’t restructure the economy, radically redistribute wealth, truly empower the disadvantaged or adopt a genuinely ethical foreign policy without upsetting too many powerful interests, from the British rich to the US government to global financial markets. This endlessly repeated conventional wisdom - internalised by some on the left as well as centrists and the right - has haunted many Labour governments, from the first, tentative ones in the 1920s to Keir Starmer’s diligent but failed administration a century later. Yet conventional wisdom can be wrong, especially in volatile periods such as the current one, when precedent may count for little. Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading. . .

For too long, only the right has expanded the boundaries of what governments can do. Can Burnham change that? | Andy Beckett
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New course for the British PM: Andy Burnham knows how to appeal to right-wing populists

The British prime minister has seized on the aggressive communication strategy of his political opponents—but only the tactic itself, not their policies. Labour celebrates him for that.

New course for the British PM: Andy Burnham knows how to appeal to right-wing populists
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