Phil Baker

🎉 👏 Burnham has finally admitted that Brexit helped cause Britain’s decade of low growth. Good. But diagnosis without treatment is political theatre. You can’t rebuild 🇬🇧 industry while maintaining barriers to our largest market. Scrap the red lines, rejoin the single market and give the country a genuine growth strategy. There is still a gulf between diagnosis and delivery. @andyburnham names Brexit as a cause of stagnation without yet committing to the single market or customs union. He promises public control without explaining ownership, financing or how profits will be prevented from leaking back to private investors. So this is considerably better than continuity Starmer but it remains a prospectus. The October Budget will reveal whether Burnham genuinely intends to rewire the economy or merely describe its failures more honestly.