Andy Burnham said he wants to help the younger generation into work

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Andy Burnham will outline proposals to hand significant powers to mayors on Monday

With only weeks to go until he is expected to become Prime Minister, Andy Burnham will use a key speech to pledge to raise living standards through reindustrialisation, housing,…

Andy Burnham will on Monday set out his Left-wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middle-class Southerners.

In Burham's Britain, there will be "good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart." But platitudes aside, this agenda is deeply radical.

Could Burnham ditch stamp duty? Will he favour voters in the north?

Burnham has proposed 'the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen'

Younger people have been ignored by politicians on the left and right

In his first speech since Keir Starmer said he would step down, Andy Burnham said the country was stuck in a 'housing trap' after a massive sell-off in public housing stock since…

Plans include greater regional power, public ownership of utilities and the end of trickle-down economics

His plan for the country is still vague, but there are clues to what he thinks, on topics from inheritance tax to welfare and social care, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The prospective prime minister yesterday referenced his 1970s childhood as he outlined a vision for his premiership that included a massive focus on affordable homes funded by the…

Andy Burnham said he wants to help the younger generation into work

Would-be prime minister Andy Burnham set out a Left-wing manifesto, including a new wave of council-house building, a focus on factory jobs and state control of the utilities.

‘I couldn’t tell you what his political ideology is,’ says Manchester campaigner Shabaaz Mohammed on the ‘charismatic’ PM-in-waiting