Andy Burnham will become Prime Minister on Monday against the third-strongest economic backdrop of any of his predecessors in the past 50 years, according to analysis.
Only Tony Blair and Theresa May came to power with the economy in a better state, the study by Public First and the Prosperity Alliance found.
It measured Burnham’s first-year forecasts against the actual first-year record of his 13 predecessors, across growth, inflation, unemployment, and borrowing.
Scott Corfe, economist at Public First, said this backdrop would “give a Burnham government more room for manoeuvre than many of its predecessors”.
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