In a deeply personal passage of his first Labour Party conference speech as UK prime minister, Andy Burnham paid tribute to the care workers who had looked after his father, Roy, who had Alzheimer’s disease and had died just two weeks earlier.
Those workers were “holding a threadbare system somehow together”, he said, yet remained “invisible to the political class of this country”. Addressing them directly, he added: “You are not invisible to me. I see you. I thank you.”
