Andy Burnham

The soon-to-be PM’s new chief of staff used to work for Thames Water’s advisers. If Andy Burnham wants to be trusted on public ownership, he needs to prove it – starting now.

Andy Burnham is said to support proportional representation. He’s also about to become prime minister thanks to one of first-past-the-post’s most undemocratic loopholes. ALAN STORY and KLAVS HENRIKSEN – writing from inside Denmark's PR system – explain how 25,000 voters got to decide for 69 million and why it doesn't have to be this way.

As Burnham eyes Number Ten, his own book very much suggests a premiership built on constitutional tinkering, not redistribution, says Andy Walker.

Hailed by Labour loyalists as the anti-Farage saviour, Burnham is really just 2024’s Starmer playbook running again – and falling for it once more will cost the left dearly, says Alan Story.

Andy Burnham trounced Reform in Makerfield and talked of change starting now. We’ve heard that one before. Before anyone gets carried away, there are inconvenient questions about Gaza, the bond markets, neoliberal economics and his New Labour past still waiting to be answered.

A new report says Britain’s crisis runs deeper than any mainstream politician admits. Andy Walker spoke to its co-author Neil McInroy about what real change would take – and why, without it, Reform wins.

If Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield byelection and then replaces Keir Starmer as Labour leader, what will it mean for the left? Andrew Hedges considers the issues.

Tax campaigner and emeritus professor of accounting at Sheffield University Management School, Richard J Murphy, takes a look at Andy Burnham’s economic proposals and concludes that, rather than offering genuine economic change, they look like a softer version of the same old failed system.

The Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s new joined up travel network, has been widely hailed as the flagship policy of Andy Burnham’s mayoralty in Manchester. However, as Anita Patel writes, it’s not necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be.