Andy Burnham Articles

The most striking thing about last night's debate is that no one with a vote seemed to actually be listening. This was clear from the polls conducted by Sky News before and after the debate. At the beginning of the programme the audience were asked who they wanted to...

Liz Kendall offers the New and blue that Labour needs One of the missed opportunities of the ancien regime was an alliance between New Labour and blue Labour. The potential was there. Maurice Glasman, the blue Labour godfather, wrote an e-book called Labour’s Radical...

Dear Liz Kendall voter Liz Kendall is right: we lost in May because of a toxic combination of doubts about our economic credibility and the leadership of our party. This is surely indisputable. Liz has consistently recognised how too many of the public viewed us and...

Labour went down to a terrible defeat in May. Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein’s post-match analysis was insightful. The ‘shy Tories’ who have long preoccupied pollsters and Labour party strategists are, he said, neither shy nor Tory. They were genuinely undecided,...