Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (credit: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
Some claim Labour is revitalised, and that it is time to go to the polls
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This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here.
Political journalism is as much a matter of telling stories as it is anything else, and few things offer a tidy narrative reset quite like a new prime minister. None of the country’s problems was changed one iota by Andy Burnham succeeding Sir Keir Starmer, but we can now watch the government discover they are still adrift in these dangerous shoals all over again.