During the last election campaign, a rising star of the Labour Party – aiming to win the safe seat of Peckham in south London – posted a glowing testimonial from one Andy Burnham on her website.‘Miatta is a leading voice on the need to change our economy, with the ideas to bring this about,’ said the man now seemingly set to become our next Prime Minister.It was the first inkling of just how close they are – and how crucial this woman, whom most voters have never heard of, is likely to be in the ‘King of the North’s’ new Left-wing administration.According to a recent article in socialist bible The New Statesman, she is set to be the ‘brains’ behind Burnham’s economic agenda – and that, say her critics, should terrify us all.For Miatta Fahnbulleh, 46, who is the chief disciple of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and a champion of Net Zero, is from the hard-Left and has long promoted an agenda that is essentially Corbynista, if not Marxist, in scope and ambition.According to recent analysis by the Tax Reform Council (TRC), at various times she has called for a wealth tax, yet another windfall tax on oil and gas and ‘mass nationalisation of land, transport, and energy’.She would also, says the TRC, like to see capital gains tax increased to the same level as income tax – a policy sensibly ruled out by every previous Labour government – though one favoured by a possible candidate to be the next Chancellor, Wes Streeting – and the abolition of the ‘upper earnings limit’ for National Insurance, which means that people who earn more than £50,270 a year pay a lower marginal rate on income above that figure.Under what The New Statesman has dubbed ‘Fahnbullehism’, stamp duty would reportedly be tripled for homeowners with more than one property, while banks would be ‘nationalised’ and banned from making loans to anyone with a ‘large amount of greenhouse gas emissions’. Miatta Fahnbulleh, 46, is reportedly set to be the ‘brains’ behind Andy Burnham’s economic agenda The new MP for Makerfield described Fahnbulleh as 'a leading voice on the need to change our economy'In a Soviet-style bid to shift company ownership toward workers and communities, Fahnbulleh is even said to have demanded that shareholder-owned businesses deposit a compulsory portion of their profits into a ‘worker-controlled fund’.The ‘high tax fanatic’, says the TRC, is also in favour of a so-called ‘Minimum Income Guarantee’, an ultra-Left policy championed by Jeremy Corbyn that would ensure that taxpayers cough up billions to ensure that nobody’s ‘income’ falls below a government-decreed level.Needless to say, if even a quarter of these lunatic policies were ever enacted, no entrepreneur would ever want to invest or build a business in Britain, tax receipts would plummet as people changed their behaviour to avoid paying the punitive rates, capital flight would soar and a financial crisis would surely beckon – if not something even worse.In this context, Burnham’s blissful ignorance on matters economic (a condition notoriously exposed when he opined that people should not be so ‘in hock’ to the bond markets) should be of huge concern, as he is reportedly planning on outsourcing much of his economic thinking to this untested ‘quasi-Marxist’, in the TRC’s words.‘Miatta oozes intellectual self-confidence,’ a concerned senior ministerial source told me last night. ‘She will take us sharply to the Left. It will be her vision, not Andy’s. Miatta and Ed Miliband will be the real powers behind Andy’s throne: It’s going to be a bumpy ride.’So who exactly is she?The Fahnbullehs arrived in Britain from the failed West African state of Liberia when she was aged six. At the time, the country was ruled by the bloodthirsty dictator Samuel Doe, who had seized power in a coup, killing his presidential predecessor in his mansion and then summarily executing his ministers after having them paraded naked through the streets of the capital, Monrovia.Miatta’s highly political and revolutionary father Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh served as foreign minister to this butcher and torturer between 1980 and 1983 but, as the regime descended into increasing violence, became a vocal critic of him.He and the family came to Britain when another civil war broke out in 1985. Politics dominated the dinner table. ‘When other people were talking about EastEnders,’ Miatta once said, ‘we were on about changing the economic settlement.’ Her brother Gamel is a broadcast journalist at ITV.Unlike her ancestral countrymen, most of whom toil for a few dollars a day, Fanbulleh was educated at the honey-stoned Beechwood School in Tunbridge Wells, where boarding fees today are £45,000-a-year.She studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford before completing a PhD at the London School of Economics.After a brief spell in the civil service, she got involved in Labour Party politics by working as an adviser to Ed Miliband, then Leader of the Opposition.Following Miliband’s trouncing in the 2015 election, she eventually became chief executive of the far-Left New Economics Foundation (NEF), which has been accused of seeking to ‘destroy the private rented sector through tax hikes’ such as applying National Insurance to rented income and hiking capital gains tax on property sales.She said of her appointment: ‘I was like, oh gosh, OK – well, there you go, there’s an accolade.’She is married to Graham, a Scot working in finance, and they have three children, including seven-year-old twins. ‘I’ve never missed any of my kids’ plays,’ she boasts.After winning her seat at the last election, Fahnbulleh was reunited with her old boss Miliband at his ‘Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’.She shares his zealous commitment to greening the electricity grid by 2030 and, like Miliband, opposes a third runway at Heathrow airport on environmental grounds, despite the fact that the Government supports such a move.She also sings the praises of mass immigration, saying in 2022: ‘Britain is made out of generations and generations of immigrants from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and every stage in our history is made up of people contributing, shifting our culture, shifting the way we work, operate and also contributing to our economy [sic].’She has been championing Burnham as successor to Starmer for some time in the knowledge that Miliband was never going to run again for the top job having failed so dismally last time.Now she is in pole position to shape the world’s fifth-largest economy to her Left-wing vision, something that horrifies free-market economist Julian Jessop.‘The markets have taken some comfort from reports that Andy Burnham has sought advice from heavyweight economists, notably Andy Haldane [former chief economist at the Bank of England] and Richard Hughes [ex-chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility],’ he says.‘But, in practice, it looks like he will lean more on people from hard left “think-tanks” with little experience of the real world, let alone policy-making.’Anyone with a pension or savings should be very worried.