Who is Andy Burnham, the ‘man of the people’ likely to be next UK prime minister?

Expected successor to Keir Starmer has promised to understand voters outside London and those who feel unheard UK politics live – latest updates In the story that Andy Burnham tells about himself, “the turning point” in his political life came in 2009 when he was booed at a football ground in the north-west of England. He had been an ideologically reliable middle-ranking minister under Tony Blair, the centrist New Labour prime minister between 1997 and 2007, and had gone on to be appointed as secretary of state for culture, media and sport under Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown. On the 20th ann

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