Andy Burnham is the Disraeli of the North
From our UK edition
As seen in the New Statesman (Cont. from pages 1-13)… as V.S. Naipaul once remarked in The Road to Wigan Pier. And so I’ve come North. To see if Leviathan still has legs in a country shaken by global tremors. And if the rise of Reform owes anything to the Tolpuddle Martyrs. But above all, I’ve come to Manchester in search of Andy Burnham’s roots as a politician, and as a person. ‘Me stomach’s rumbling,’ says Andy, insightfully. ‘I want chips ’n’ greveh. But I spent me last quid down bookies’ Burnham’s almost Silicon Valley-like brio for the ‘White Heat’ of technology sits alongside a thoughtful Roman Catholicism, grounded in a rich social democratic tradition. Not Methodism, nor Marxism, but MotherMary.
