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To kick this week off, Labour’s newest MP and the man who looks likely to become prime minister gave a historic speech from the People’s History Museum in Manchester, laying out his vision for the future of Britain’s economy.
In looking to the future, Burnham nodded to the past. He said that if, and it is still an if, he becomes Britain’s next prime minister, he would like to oversee the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period.
While Burnham was looking to the aftermath of the Second World War for inspiration, another historic announcement was coming out of Westminster.
