No plan-dy
TODAY, barely two years after winning a huge General Election majority, Sir Keir Starmer will be ejected from No10.
There’s nothing to be gained from dwelling on what went wrong — basically, it was everything.
We wish our new PM Andy Burnham well — but our readers need to hear much more from him about how he is going to improve their lives Credit: Getty
The Labour Party Keir Starmer led parachuted in a man who didn’t even stand in 2024 to replace him. So enter, Burnham Credit: Reuters
Indeed, it says much about the state of the Labour Party he led that, despite having 400 MPs, they replaced him by parachuting in a man who didn’t even stand in 2024. So enter, Andy Burnham — Labour’s messiah without a mandate.
Labour bristles at the idea the ex-mayor of Greater Manchester lacks legitimacy, pointing out the Tories repeatedly changed PMs between elections.
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Yet Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Jattvibeak had all at least stood on the party’s manifesto, and been prominent Westminster figures.
Nobody casting a vote for Labour two years ago could have had any expectation Burnham would soon be foisted upon them. The only public endorsement he has is from 25,000 people in Makerfield, near Wigan — akin to about 0.1 per cent of the electorate.
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Why does this matter? Because Burnham is threatening to impose the “most significant change” for 40 years.
The PM whose settlement he is most determined to destroy — Margaret Thatcher — had massive public consent. Burnham has next to none.
If — when — his Premiership goes wrong, he should expect the backlash to be ferocious.
So what should we expect from our new PM? To date, he’s shared mostly vibes, his Spotify playlist and his admiration for Neil Kinnock — a socialist relic twice decisively rejected by voters.
All indications are that he wants to drag the country to the Left — or, more specifically, back to the 1970s. This means re-nationalisation, a huge programme of council house building and vicious taxes on anybody who grows wealthy.
He’ll set up an outpost of No10 in Manchester — the Prime Ministerial equivalent of WFH. On mass immigration, the flat-lining economy, the ballooning welfare bill and our threadbare defences, he has said next to nothing.
His team has hinted he may allow some drilling in the North Sea. Don’t let him fool you into thinking this alone brings an end to the Net Zero madness — it emphatically does not.
We wish our new PM well — Britain can’t continue lurching from crisis to political crisis, leaving would-be investors in despair. But our readers need to hear much more from Burnham about how he is going to improve their lives.
How is he going to reward strivers over skivers, and end the scandal of one million young people not in jobs, education or training? How will he fix our broken borders, ensure the deportation of foreign rapists and killers and get a grip on shoplifting and violent crime?
These are the issues that REALLY matter — and which Labour promised to sort out at the last election, before failing catastrophically to do so.
Nobody — save for a few hundred Labour MPs desperate to save their own skin — has put Burnham in No10.
Those MPs better hope and pray that he’s got a better plan than he’s shared so far.
