(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/AZVJH3vIPSs) Andy Burnham became Prime Minister just a couple of weeks ago on a promise to bring back hope. And Labour’s big win in the Manchester mayoral election on Thursday has certainly given him a reason to be cheerful. It also fits rather neatly into his pledge to give areas like that lots more clout, not least in terms of the money they can spend. He has a window of opportunity, and he’s using it to let in as much sunshine as h

You can’t say he hasn’t got a wiggle on. Every day since he got the job our new Prime Minister’s pulled yet another rabbit out of the hat. Each aimed at easing cost of living pressures. People pleasing with knobs on. But, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, what isn’t quite so clear is who’s going to pick up the tab for it all. You see him here, you see him there, you see him everywhere. Before he’d even popped in on the palace for the royal get-go Andy Burn

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/nq1yLRxvlY4) With Andy Burnham poised to pick up the keys to Number Ten we’re all set for a new style of government. A new vibe. But as yet there’s no way of knowing whether that’ll translate into a new and better deal for the rest of us. It’s not like we’ve had any say in the matter. Half a century ago the Czech writer Milan Kundera was penning his seminal novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which explored the impact on the li

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/DfQvq0ANIiA) Our incoming Prime Minister’s got a lot on his plate. Even more than he bargained for, thanks to the gristly leftovers scraped onto it from the outgoing guy’s not very tasty treat. Andy Burnham’s got to gulp it all down somehow, but it’ll take all his fabled communication skills to avoid leaving a nasty taste in everyone else’s mouth. ‘I’m afraid there’s no money.’ That scrawled note left by a Labour Treasury minister for