Labour has been ruling since 2024, but at this year's party congress there is suddenly hope again – which is mainly due to the almost incredibly popular Andy Burnham. At the same time, the new Premier also announces unpopular things.
Marzia Maccaferri, historian of politics at Queen Mary University in London, comments on Andy Burnham's first speech as prime minister at the Labour Party Congress on September 29 in Liverpool. According to the historian, the claim that the country has been on the wrong road for forty years has been read as a break with Tony Blair's New Labour, but it is not entirely new, because it was the central message of Jeremy Corbyn's season. It is rather…