The battle of Burnham would

The battle of Burnham would

If I may, I’d like to talk to you all about Andy Burnham, who began yesterday with an attention-grabbing media round in which he refused to rule out one day running to be leader of the Labour party and finished it with a speech in Stockport about “the Greater Manchester way” (a less tongue-twisting version the “Manchesterism” vision he set out in an interview with the NS back in September, I’m told). In his speech Burnham announced a £1bn growth…