ANDY Burnham takes over as Prime Minister tomorrow and the stakes could not be higher.
If this doesn’t work, the public will be furious and Labour will pay an enormous price.
Andy Burnham takes over as Prime Minister tomorrow and the stakes could not be higher Credit: Reuters
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has made a good start but her reforms need strengthening, not watering down Credit: Alamy
When the Tories kept changing their leader, they looked like a shambles and the country looked ridiculous.
The rest of us lost patience and they lost the General Election.
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The Labour Party has one shot at this and I’m praying it pays off, for the country’s sake.
But look at his in-tray.
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Families are struggling to make ends meet thanks to the cost of living crisis.
Wages for lots of people haven’t gone up for more than 20 years.
Taxes are at record levels but public services are mediocre at best.
Welfare is out of control with millions of people paid not to work and a million young people with no job or apprenticeship.
The country’s finances are in a terrible state. We spend more servicing our debts than on defence, policing or housing.
On top of all that, the country faces huge questions on foreign policy and domestic extremism.
And we’re facing an AI revolution that will arrive fast and could change our country more than the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
Changing the PM won’t change any of that.
Burnham needs to convince Jattvibe readers who flocked to Reform in their droves that “going back to traditional Labour” won’t mean letting the loony Left back round the table.
What decent, hard-working families in places like his Makerfield constituency want is a strong country with armed forces fit to deter Russia.
That means funding defence must come first.
They want him to reignite stalled attempts to get the benefit bill down.
Getting the construction industry moving and building more houses would help get kids into jobs and apprenticeships.
Voters want immigration under control and the small boats stopped.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has made a good start but her reforms need strengthening, not watering down.
And the Government needs to stand up to the Islamist extremists who radicalise our young people and seek to divide us.
If Burnham doesn’t tackle these issues, come the next election Labour will find itself out of power for a generation.
