Morning Call: The casual coup
On the campaign trail with Andy Burnham
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, so our cover story is live. Ailbhe has been on the campaign trail with Andy Burnham. Here is today’s line-up. You can get access to the full site for £1 a week here.
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And with that…
Thanks for reading.
—Tom
I love the idea of Andy Burnham single handedly uniting the good people in labour and helping move things in the right direction, but is it not the case that our politics in the UK is deeply corrupted with self serving interests undermining socialism at every level....I fear he will be chewed up and spat out as Corbyn and Starmer before him. Can he appeal strongly enough to the puppeteers to survive!? Can he win over the drama addicted electorate? If gets elected....