Here's how I would fix Britain: Burnham's challenge to Starmer

There are plenty of coincidences and cock-ups that set the conspiracy theorist’s mind racing.

Yet it can be no accident that Andy Burnham – the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, the leading contender to replace Keir Starmer and the ‘King of the North’, is announcing his £1bn economic growth plan for the region just before a difficult Budget.

A Budget in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves needs to show how she is going to deliver that ever elusive economic growth.

And now, in a major interview with The i Paper , Burnham, details how he would solve that other national sore – the housing crisis.

These are big topics. To showcase an alternative vision from a position of actual implemented policy seems to ask for a contrast with the national Labour leadership. New Feature

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