Change and hope. That is what our unelected would-be Prime Minister Andy Burnham offered the country in his acceptance speech in Makerfield in the early hours of Friday morning.
Nearly two years ago, Sir Keir Starmer stood outside Number 10 Downing Street and delivered a remarkably similar speech, although to be fair to him he had gone to the trouble of being elected by the nation’s voters.
Starmer mentioned ‘change’ four times versus Burnham’s score of eight. The ‘King of the North’ also won on ‘hope’, invoking it four times compared to Starmer’s three. Their speeches were equally bland and equally empty.
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