Andy Burnham
Beware Andy Burnham’s ‘devolution revolution’
Andy Burnham is a lucky politician. And Nigel Farage has just given him another piece of surprising good fortune. The…
London’s slump won’t last
I left the Sunday Times a year ago to create a CEO reputation advisory firm. Sir Philip Green, the former…
Lessons in oratory for Andy Burnham
A Mr Burnham, A.M. (Andrew Murray) fancies being PM and Labour MPs have decided to humour him. Needing to assert…
Burnham’s unwillingness to face the media should worry us all
There are so many hopes invested in Andy Burnham’s premiership that disappointment is inevitable. In some cases, it is also…
‘No. 10 North’ won’t work
It would be dangerously premature to say that Ukraine is winning the war with Russia, but Russia is undoubtedly doing…
Reform is right to fear the return of Boris
The man from Reform had barely sat down at our table at the French bistro when he leant forward conspiratorially…
What kills more: heat or cold?
Absolute mayor Andy Burnham wants more devolution and elected mayors. Do voters want that? – Since 2001 there have been…
Storm warnings for Burnham from the weathermen of Basel
Reading the annual economic report of the Bank for International Settlements while lying beside a pool with an Aperol spritz…
Letters: Burnham is a master brand-builder
Telling stories Sir: As a filmmaker by training and a marketer by profession, I couldn’t agree more with your leading…
Can Burnham resist the siren call of the left?
Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter…
How the right can fight Burnham
Andy Burnham has not yet entered No. 10, but the Conservatives and Reform are already preparing for the possibility of…
How does this week’s heatwave compare with 1976?
Prime numbers It looks as if Britain will just miss out on having seven prime ministers in the space of…
Portrait of the week: Burnham wins, Starmer resigns and a heatwave hits
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, stood outside 10 Downing Street and said that he would resign as leader…
Burnham’s worryingly vague vision for Britain
Once again the question occurs: ‘Why do they want it?’ Keir Starmer held a very important role in the legal…
How Burnham can avoid Starmer’s fate
Welcome to the cabaret, Andy Burnham. Last year, the editor of this magazine wrote about ‘Weimar Britain’: the fear that…
Can I save Britain from war with Russia?
I t won’t be much of a consolation to Keir Starmer but I too was overwhelmed by the responsibilities of…
The death of two-party politics has been greatly exaggerated
Every twist in the winding road of our politics brings a latest thing to say. These wisdoms usually survive a…
Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years
There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in…
We need to demand more from our politicians
The first mention of Westminster came in a charter of 785, attributed to King Offa, granting land in ‘that terrible…
Pity Andy Burnham
There is something infinitely melancholy in hearing what political ambition does to perfectly nice people. I awoke on Monday to…
A lot can happen in Makerfield this weekend
It’s been another bizarre week in Westminster, with Sir Keir Starmer going about business as if everything is completely normal…
‘Being a Labour mayor in Manchester is playing politics on easy mode’: Is Andy Burnham up to the job of PM?
When the Labour party football team played a group of journalists at Loftus Road two years ago the hacks won…
Labour must be honest with voters about the coming crisis
So far, Labour has staged a contested leadership election in government only once – 50 years ago, in 1976. The…
Things can always get worse
I have spent the past week marvelling at the behaviour of our commentating class. They seem to have whipped themselves…
