The prime minister said Britain needed to be brutally honest about the mistakes of the last 40 years of UK politics
Andy Burnham has blamed Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for a decade of low growth in the UK, arguing that Britain needs to be brutally honest about having taken “a series of wrong turns” in the last 40 years.
In his first Commons appearance since he took over as prime minister about six weeks ago, Burnham told MPs he wanted to build a new sense of optimism so “we can make this next decade better than the last”.
The British people wanted “much more substantial change” on the big issues facing the country, he said. “That is what I will bring. Britain is not where any of us would wish it to be. Things are not working as they should.”
The UK economy has taken a 6% hit from the effects of Brexit, according to economists’ analysis of internal Bank of England data on thousands of British companies since the referendum a decade ago.
