They say Andy Burnham is ‘good at politics’ – but the proof will only come in time | Zoe Williams

The PM-in-waiting brings the promise of likability and a mission voters can believe in. He’ll need all that and more to survive There is some uncertainty and trepidation in these liminal days before the nomination period for the next Labour leader opens. But it’s not about the “who” of the next prime minister so much as the “what”. How different can Andy Burnham be , given that he is bound by the same manifesto, assailed by the same headwinds? It’s widely agreed that he has a vision where his predecessor did not, but each wing of Labour loyalists is projecting their own version of what it is.

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