Is Liverpool-born Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham really a working class hero?
AINTREE-born wannabe Labour leader Andy ‘Pandy’ Burnham – proclaiming in the ECHO this week that his first favour for Liverpool as prime minister would be approving the £100m electrified rail link to Manchester – appears to think that his so-called working class background justifies tenancy of 10 Downing Street. He believes that by not being part of the ‘elitist’ London clique (the brothers Miliband and the man Balls – aka Gordon Brown’s brain) sets him up as the people’s champion. That may have been the case when the Labour uniform included a flat cap and hobnail boots. But deprivation is no longer a qualification for office.
