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The Guardian Politics/19h ago

Voters back Burnham’s plan to cut back triple lock to fund social care reform by 48% to 28%, poll suggests – as it happened

Voters back Burnham’s plan to cut back triple lock to fund social care reform by 48% to 28%, poll suggests – as it happened. This live blog is now closed ‘Oozing everyman charm’: what the papers said about Burnham’s speech Andy Burnham has suggested that it would not be legitimate for a party to form a majority government with less than 30% of the vote. In his Today interview, asked why he wanted electoral reform and a move towards proportional representation, Burnham replied: I found it better being elected under a different system as mayor of Greater Manchester, where people.

The Guardian Politics/1d ago

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

I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments | Owen Jones. 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 shattering 2019 election defeat. “I am proud that on austerity, on corporate power, on inequality and the climate emergency,” he wrote for this publication, “we have won the arguments.