Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, has launched a thinly veiled pitch to replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, proposing tax hikes on the wealthy, mass nationalisation and a big increase in borrowing.
Speaking in the run-up to Labour’s annual conference, Burnham said MPs were privately urging him to challenge Starmer and set out what was in effect a personal manifesto for the party leadership.
Burnham did not deny he was interested in the Labour leadership — which he has tried and failed to win on two previous occasions — and made it clear that if he was successful he would take the party sharply to the left.
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