If you hanker for the decade of flares, shag carpeting and the Bay City Rollers, Andy Burnham‘s conference speech was pitched directly to you.
For the Prime Minister’s address to the Labour faithful in Liverpool was a gushing love letter to the suffocating socialism of the 1970s.
His remarks, the most chilling from any Labour prime minister of my lifetime, outlined a wild lurch to the Left that went far beyond anything even Jeremy Corbyn attempted during his time as Labour leader.
Nationalisation, property seizures, ‘democratic control’ over housing, and the rolling back of Margaret Thatcher‘s market reforms – this was a speech
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