After being warned by Sir Tony Blair in a 5,600-word essay not to drag the country back to the 1970s, Andy Burnham has, of course, this evening vowed to do exactly that. In a bid to burnish his anti-Blairite credentials and show Labour’s lefties that he is truly one of them, the Greater Manchester Mayor

Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of Starmer’s premiership, but there is another candidate for that…

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

Andy Burnham and Torsten Bell say the former Labour PM’s essay does not address today’s challenges

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Andy Burnham hit out at Tony Blair today, saying the former Labour prime minister 'does not understand' people's lives.

Burnham distanced himself from Blair’s approach on globalisation and “leaving things to the market” in an article for The Times.

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

After being warned by Sir Tony Blair in a 5,600-word essay not to drag the country back to the 1970s, Andy Burnham has, of course, this evening vowed to do exactly that. In a bid…

Political editor David Maddox looks at the contradictory nature of Andy Burnham’s response to Tony Blair

The Greater Manchester Mayor and Sir Keir Starmer both rejected the former PM's scathing critique of their policies.

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Labour leadership hopeful attacks Tony Blair’s ‘retro thinking’ and sets out proposals for sweeping state intervention

In an essay published yesterday, Andy Burnham gave us his prospectus for government. If he becomes prime minister, he wants to take us back to the 1970s.