Andy Burnham pledges to bring back 'hope' as he lays out 10-year plan to fix Britain

Andy Burnham has pledged to bring back "hope" to politics while he laid out a 10-year plan to fix Britain.

The Labour leadership frontrunner vowed that he hopes to "lift Britain back up to where we all want it to be" and "give the nation the circuit-breaker it needs".

Speaking from Manchester, Mr Burnham outlined plans for the "biggest transfer of power out of Whitehall in modern times" in a wider regional power-sharing arrangement.

Since the financial crash, Westminster is "not working" and has left the UK "stuck in a rut", Mr Burnham said, adding it left politicians resorting to "finger-pointing political point-scoring".

Part of the plans entail a "No10 North" to fuel long-term economic renewal spanning across the country, far and wide.

He demanded raising living standards "for every single person across this land" by boosting the British economy.

Echoing many of his own opponents, Mr Burnham also ceded that public trust in politicians has eroded over time, and that he, along with others of his generation, must take accountability.

Other Prime Ministers who have whipped up plans for a decade in power have fallen well short of the ambitious milestone, including Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Mr Burnham’s likely predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer.

David Cameron has come the closest in recent years, managing six years as Prime Minister before stepping aside in 2016.

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