Tomorrow morning there *may* be a new candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party.... but, those who think Andy Burnham will transform the Labour Party back to how many imagine it once was when it *was* a left wing party, are likely to be disappointed.
Burnham may wrest the party from the clutches of Blue Labour ('may' being the operative word), but he is unlikely to do much to shift Labour into an actual left wing party (again?)
#politics #LabourParty #Makerfield
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
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