Andy Burnham Launches High Tax and Spend ‘Alternative’ Plan For Labour – Guido Fawkes

Andy Burnham Launches High Tax and Spend ‘Alternative’ Plan For Labour

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After months of attacking Starmer and Reeves’ Downing Street operation Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is fleshing out his policy platform. The King in the North has been a thorn in the PM’s side since he entered Downing Street…

Delivering his ‘alternative left policy programme’ in London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub on Saturday, Burnham launched a scathing attack on the actual Labour leader, (and not for the first time) offering up his own policy ideas instead. Looking suspiciously like a leadership manifesto…

• Set a new overriding national target on housing.
• Launch the “biggest and quickest” council and social house-building programme Britain has ever seen.
• Introduce proportional representation, to bring a “new politics.” A staple of all high-falutin progressive leadership pitches…
• Bring in “free transport for teenagers in England.”
• Talk about technical education and “working-class ambition” in the same way it talks about university education, with “two equal paths, one academic one technical.”
• Reverse the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance and the disability benefits and not make cuts.
• “Reset the balance” on the “overtaxed labour and undertaxed wealth.” 

Burnham went on to say Labour needs to work on a “substantially new offer for the public” that “speaks to the ambition of all of those people, all of those places that have felt modern politics has ignored them”. A little outside his brief…