Talk of "divided politics" misses the point - that the division is entirely the result of the rise of the far right: the Greens (for example) are no more leftist than the SDP was in the mid-80s.
Transcript of Andy Burnham's eve of poll address in Makerfield
"There is a path that carries on and makes Britain look more and more like the USA, and we do not, in my view, want to end up there...
"That's not the Britain I know & love...There is a different path...to bring people together again."
