What Europe Is Saying About Britain
France, Spain, Germany and Portugal all watched Andy Burnham rise and Keir Starmer cling on — and each saw a different Britain. A tour of the same story in four mirrors.
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France, Spain, Germany and Portugal all watched Andy Burnham rise and Keir Starmer cling on — and each saw a different Britain. A tour of the same story in four mirrors.
He fronted a covert, dark-money political operation, helped drag Labour onto Faragist ground, and was copied into the surveillance of journalists reporting on it. Now he has cleared the path to Parliament for Andy Burnham and is heading back toward power — and almost no one is asking how.
How a backloaded defence settlement became a full leadership crisis — and what's circling the wreckage.