A New Statesman profile for the issue published in the week before Labour Party conference. A lengthy interview in the Daily Telegraph on the eve of a major international conference of global progressive leaders, including the newly-elected prime ministers of Canada, Australia and Norway. This is your standard press management for a party leader in the run up to the second meeting of the UK Labour family since its landslide victory in July 2024.

Except it’s not Keir Starmer who is being profiled and interviewed, it’s Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, who was already enjoying a good week as the Hillsborough Law was passed. This legislation – the binding of public servants to a legal duty of candour – was Burnham’s response to the scandal of the police cover-up after

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