Lots of Today prog focus on young grads failing to get their first jobs, which is of course a problem - but here's the real Neet story, about the majority who are not only not working, but are now not applying to:
Thank you Pagefield for nominating me for Political Journalist of the Year alongside two greats! 🏆
My cover story - something I've been working on since last summer - on the shadow state, a country trapped in an outsourced asylum (and everything else) system it created for itself:
“Ultimately, he wants to be the PM, and then he won’t look at the likes of us any more”
“He’s just going to be demonised now… They’re going to drag him through the mud”
Two Makerfield focus groups. Two perspectives on Andy Burnham. The same sense of despair
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Louise Haigh and Anneliese Midgley were once sidelined by Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney.
Now they're running Andy Burnham's march on Downing Street.
This week's NS column is on the two people you need to know about as Labour prepares for regime change.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Andy Burnham
-wonders whether we would still be in the EU if he had been elected Labour leader in 2015
- declines to defend Ed Miliband on North Sea oil and gas “I’ve got something of an open mind, you know. I don’t have a sort of fixed position.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
"It is very long, more revealing than most Burnham interviews have been, and full of nuance"
I'll take that thanks kind @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social 🙏
Read it here www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Anoosh Chakelian
Burnham suggests a Reform UK general election victory could lead to an “irreversible” change in UK politics (in vg New Statesman i/v with @pronouncedalva.bsky.social) - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- responds to Joshi Herrmann piece ("I've not read it" - "he's not sympathetic") and criticism that he is vague on his plan for the country and 'Manchesterism'
- tells a voter he will "possibly" challenge to become PM
Much more in the piece! On newsstands now
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell
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EXCLUSIVE Andy Burnham interview in this week's New Statesman
On the fight against Reform, what he would do differently to Keir Starmer, and how he wonders whether Brexit would have turned out differently if he had been elected Labour leader in 2015.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
