Andy Burnham Articles

Discussions of May 2016 as the first real test of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party focus on local council elections but rarely mention another election taking place on the same day: that of the country's police and crime commissioners. Andy Burnham's...

Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village As we are in a new world, perhaps we should rename this column. The insider is now firmly outside, cold and shivering. Sometimes courtiers discover larger forces at work. So it is today. There has been a peasants’...

The result of the Labour leadership election was hurtful – to pretend otherwise would be untrue. I think the candidate that I supported did a brilliant job – tough though her task was. As Jeremy Corbyn said, Liz Kendall ‘absolutely stands up for what she believes in’....

By the time you read this the leadership election will be over. On a grey cold day in September, as the calendar ticks to 13, Jeremy Corbyn slipped through the door of Victory Mansions. And yet, this is not a piece about Corbyn. This is a piece about how opposition...