ANALYSIS: The PM had plenty to say about his family… but said little on welfare reform or raising defence spending

He spent little over an hour on the main stage at the Labour conference, but alongside headline-grabbing pledges on the triple lock, social care, Brexit and electoral reform, Andy Burnham also talked about: Family.

Mr Burnham honoured his grandparents and parents who he said had ‘guided him’ to becoming PM.

He said Liverpool was where his ‘story began’ as he came before members at Labour’s annual conference, adding: ‘My grandad drove a lorry along these docks for Tate and Lyle. My gran, Kitty, inherited the drive of her Irish ancestors. She walked three miles out of the bombed-out city after the war to put

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