The Burnham Programme
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The Burnham Programme
@theideareview
Reviewing ideas. https://t.co/FcZKekaX0l
UK 가입일 Nisan 2015
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Why would you run to lose just give the impression of a contest. Only an idiot would run in those circumstance.
Lucy McDaid@LucyJMcDaid
BREAKING: Darren Jones tells @BethRigby in an exclusive interview that he will NOT be running to be the next Labour leader and PM He says he was 'never planning or organising a leadership campaign like some of my colleagues' and despite insisting he had the numbers to run, sought reassurances from Burnham on economic plans and believes traders 'can be content' Full interview here⬇️ news.sky.com/video/darren-j…
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@Blueerryforest @JPMcQu @bmay The local election results. Wales gone. Scotland gone. Historically bad.
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@theideareview @JPMcQu @bmay Who told you that the public does not want Keir Starmer? The media. I am a member of the public as many others who wanted him to be PM.
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My strong gut feeling is that the Labour Party is having a very excited, almost delirious conversation with itself that will completely fail to connect with the vast majority of the country beyond some parts of northern England.
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@MediumChiller15 @anglofuturist What about if it was @CountBinface ticking your scrotum instead of me?
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@theideareview @anglofuturist No, because you could pay me £200k per year and tickle my scrotum every morning and I would still choose the centuries of infrastructure and cultural interest in London over living in Newport. Maybe we should build more housing in London and kick out zone 1-4 social tenants.
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There is not an eye roll pronounced enough to summarise my reaction to this news. This is going to be a horrible few years.
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Andy Burnham looking to move part of Number 10 operations to Manchester ft.trib.al/2vyRGk4
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@jordanbhx Good point. What of other regions and nations in the UK?
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Predictable. His ambition was never decentralisation, but simply centralisation somewhere else. This isn’t what a PM for the whole of the UK would propose and it’s hard to see what benefits this would bring to places that are genuinely ‘left behind’.
Financial Times@FT
FT exclusive: Andy Burnham is looking to set up a 'Number 10 in the north', moving part of his prime ministerial operation to Manchester, in a radical attempt to shift power beyond Westminster ft.trib.al/RfP4Mfr
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@MediumChiller15 @anglofuturist And you dont see how putting civil service offices there is part of a process of making these places more attractive
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@theideareview @anglofuturist It's a grim shithole that no young or ambitious person would choose to move to. Very few young ambitious people are lined up to move to Newport and Wigan for government work because they are both shit places to live.
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@RenaudFoucart Maybe we get HS20 up to Manchester at least.
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The problem with the Manchester elite is that they are out of touch with the real people of Preston, Lancaster or Barrow-in-Furness
Financial Times@FT
Andy Burnham looking to move part of Number 10 operations to Manchester ft.trib.al/2vyRGk4
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@unojen_wood lets hold off on judgement until he's actually in the job
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I'm already starting to wish Burnham hadn't become an MP. Look at his 'advisors'. Good grief.
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@anglofuturist I've only ever seen Newport on the train to elsewhere, but looks fine to me!
Anyway, Newport isnt the only option
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@theideareview I think they quit because they don't want to live in Newport.
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@Shouldnotbeonx @AaronBastani yes hes the dark arts guy. everyone needs one
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. Next? theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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Burnham needs loyal, reliable, intelligent people - & even then his job is insanely hard.
Obviously that precludes almost anyone from Labour right machine politics. So you understand why he’d want someone who left Westminster in 2010. Still, there’s a big history here!
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
Andy Burnham making James Purnell his chief of staff does not suggest he's interested in winning back Green voters.
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@ArchieHall What stuck out for me is that old video where he says his first overseas visit will be to Israel. New boss same as the old boss.
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@anglofuturist Did he not explicitly swear off PR like two weeks ago?
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Honestly, Burnham's going to be so overwhelmed by the situation he finds the country in, so he won't have time to do most of these things. The one I can see him doing is proportional representation. He does not have any mandate big enough to codify the constitution.
Archie Hall@ArchieHall
The bit that stuck out most to me...
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@anglofuturist He doesn't have mandate of any kind. I think he's already accepted that he can't do PR without going to the country first.
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@t848m0 @dylan04gla @boyfailbstrivin @anglofuturist thdhmo, thats a good observation. But the tories have been banging on about a british bill of rights for more than 10 years now. Reason we told them to get lost was because we know it'd mean less/weakened rights in certain areas. AB can do a different (better) one.
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@dylan04gla @boyfailbstrivin @anglofuturist I think the only chance you could stand it up is with a thumping referendum mandate, you need to embed it as a genuine social consensus - and that seems almost impossible to imagine for any likely constitution they’d propose.
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@anglofuturist bunch of people quit because too much talent is concentrated in London - the problem we're addressing.
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@theideareview Because the ONS move to Newport went so well, didn't it
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@93vintagejones 'disaster' is hyperbole. relax. The manifesto is still the manifesto until ab says otherwise.
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This is a disaster. Essential that Labour's ideas are floated before the public: they need to be asked about our relationship with Europe, ILR for the Boriswave, waspi women, net zero, tax and spending plans, policing, visas for Palestinians.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Darren Jones has ruled out standing against Andy Burnham for Labour Leader “Andy Burnham is going to be the next Prime Minister”
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Now imagine if Burnham removed the whip from Keir Starmer and called his government 'morally bankrupt'.
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I don't see any of Keir Starmer's cabinet turning down a role in Burnham's cabinet.
Lammy, Reeves and Jones are all clearly angling for positions.
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I will continue to die on the hill marked "it would be completely mad for a PM with 400 seats and 3 years left in a government term to call an early election which is all but certain to weaken his party." arguably.uk/p/dont-be-a-bo…
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@robfordmancs @CraigRMitchell which is why ab should be vocal and bold about it. no early election, period.
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@CraigRMitchell Yes, in my view that's exactly right. Mbatang argues that Brown took a hit because he didn't go early. All the accounts of that period make clear that's not right: he took a hit because he marched everyone up the hill and then down again.
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