His grandfather, Jimmy, was a lorry driver for Tate & Lyle, his grandmother, Kitty, was a spirited young woman – so spirited that, without even telling her husband, she walked three miles out of bomb-damaged Liverpool to put down a deposit on a family house.
This was the very personal origin story that Prime Minister Andy Burnham led off with in his first address to Labour conference as party leader, using it to frame his thoughts on issues like housing and aspiration.
‘She put a deposit down on a house. The house where I was born. It changed the fortunes of my
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