25 years ago Burnham was a very underwhelming young man in a hurry - he began Blairite, then shifted into a sort of sub-Miliband who tried & failed for leadership twice. He left Westminster in '16 to be Mayor of Greater Manchester, where he did a good job on the soft left (a very loose term now) & -
Justin Sherin
I don’t know who Andy Burnham is but I knew who Kier Starmer was for a few years before he was elected PM