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“Burnham’s no ‘King of the North – he’s the Menace from Manchester for the left”
by Rachael Swindon in The Canary
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@UKLabour“Polls show Burnham is outpacing Starmer among Labour members, which really shouldn’t be too difficult. Burnham’s folksy charm and occasional rhetorical flourishes about public control of essential utilities play rather well in working-class heartlands.
So let’s be absolutely clear from the word go. Andy Burnham is no saviour of the left. He is its latest disappointment, dressed in a tracksuit and a warm regional accent.
Worse, his brand of soft-left managerialism poses a direct danger to the Green Party’s growing, necessary challenge to the broken two-party system”
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026/05/31/burnham-king-north/
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https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reclaiming-labour/
Interesting read about the UK Labour party's "soft left".
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https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-report/2025/08/496136
Because I am in the the USA and not in close touch with what's going on within the Labour party, I am unsure of the current credibility and status of Compass.
In the long term, some kind of progressive alliance would be the best path for the social democratic left in the UK.
Getting on that path is, however, difficult.
I'm sorry to see that Open Labour seems to be inactive.
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