Andy Burnham Articles

The Labour party leadership contest is a hot mess. What began as a promising debate about the future has now become a political middle that Labour has always been prone to in its century-long history. As the Tories capitalise on their famous victory with ‘tanks on...

This week the Progress strategy board has endorsed an all-women team to meet Labour's electoral challenges to come. Elected by the membership of Progress – Labour's new mainstream, the board members decided to support Liz Kendall for Labour leader and Tessa Jowell for...

Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village Cast your mind back a decade. As a Labour supporter, perhaps you were happy that Labour had won a majority, but were also uncomfortably aware of the dangerous territory ahead. The prime minister had announced...

The question for Labour is who is best placed to win in 2020, says Andy Burnham As someone who held positions as a special adviser, a minister and a secretary of state in the last Labour government it might be tempting for Andy Burnham to distance himself from New...