Andy Burnham insisted Britain needs to go back to the 1970s today as he put the ‘wealthy’ South on notice for his Downing Street takeover.
Delivering his first big speech in Manchester, the PM-in-waiting said the country had not been working for ‘ordinary people’ since before Thatcher.
He argued that ‘trickle down’ economics must be ditched and replaced with a Left-wing concept of ‘good growth’. That included more state ownership and the ‘biggest council house-building programme since the post-war period’.
Echoing the Corbynite slogan ‘for the many’, Mr Burnham said he wanted to put ‘hope in every heart’ by ‘rebalancing’ power and money away from
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