I am cautiously optimistic about our new leader. For one thing, the fact that Mr Burnham went to Cambridge not Oxford, did not study PPE, is not a lawyer and did not grow up in Surrey makes him something of a diversity hire among our more recent UK prime ministers. This gives us hope. It

James Reed, whose worked in recruitment for over three decades, shares his three tips for Andy Burnham on starting his big new job

Unlike Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, Andy Burnham thinks the best way forward is backward. His guiding philosophy is reversing 40 years of neoliberal privatization,…