Andy Burnham promised a “new direction” for Britain and vowed to overhaul the country’s “broken” political system as he sought to lift the spirits of Labour MPs in his first major speech as “prime minister-in-waiting”.
Speaking at the People’s History Museum in Manchester on Monday, the newly-elected MP for Makerfield, who now appears to be the only candidate to replace Sir Keir Starmer, laid out a decade-long plan topped with the promise of a “No 10 of the North” – an outpost of 10 Downing Street which he claimed would be “the nerve centre of a rewired Britain”.
