Andy Burnham gives Labour post-landslide euphoria absent under Sir Keir Starmer, says peer | Politics News
Andy Burnham has given Labour the “post-electoral euphoria” that they did not have after Sir Keir Starmer’s landslide 2024 general election victory, Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to our political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the senior Labour peer said she was wrong to argue against assertions that the Starmer project would not succeed, but now there is a “stable government with a huge majority” that can deliver for the public. Her comments come after the prime minister’s speech to Labour Party conference, in which he set out a series of policy plans, including a universal social care service, funded by controversial changes to the pensions triple lock, a commission to examine electoral reform, and a plan to get closer to the European Union – and potentially rejoin in future. Politics latest: Green Party and Plaid Cymru conferences begin Harman, who served with Mr Burnham in the Blair and Brown governments, told Beth Rigby in the wake of his speech: “We’re suddenly having our post-electoral euphoria, which we sort of didn’t feel …
