What the Gaps in Andy Burnham’s Speech Reveal

What the gaps in Andy Burnham’s speech reveal

A lot has been said about the prime minister’s first speech as leader at the Labour Party conference. But what didn’t Andy Burnham say? Have the public understood the new PM’s big policy offer? And why was there nothing substantial on welfare reform? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the headline polling on the Burnham […]

14 things we learned from Andy Burnham’s speech

1) He’s the most effective speaker we’ve had in a PM for years I’ve been attending party conferences since 2001…

What The Gaps In Andy Burnham's Speech Reveal

A lot has been said about the prime minister’s first speech as leader at the Labour Party conference. But what didn’t Andy Burnham say? Have the public understood the new PM’s big policy offer? And why was there nothing substantial on welfare reform? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the headline polling on the Burnham […]

I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments

The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed As Andy Burnham delivered his conference speech to the Labour faithful yesterday, it was hard not to recall Jeremy Corbyn’s words after the party’s…