Enda Brady: Andy Burnham is selling his vision well — but he will need to get creative to fix broken Britain

With the UK government spending £390m a day solely on interest repayments on its debt, and a right-wing press wanting to see him fail, Andy Burnham will need some quick wins to avoid the fate of so many recent British prime ministers

Andy Burnham was sworn in as an MP in the House of Commons on Monday, June 22, after winning the Makerfield by-election — but the knives are already out for him. Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

Heard the one about the new prime minister who wants to work from home? And he’s not talking about the flat above No.10 Downing Street. Britain’s new leader-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, has made it clear that he plans to spend some of the week working from Manchester, a “No.10 North” as it’s being called.

Britain is Europe’s ‘WFH’ capital — a country that has seen vast swathes of its workforce refuse to fully return to the office after the pandemic, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that even the incoming PM wants to do it.