Labour leadership contender says party would enjoy won electorate over with ‘genuine alternative to Osborne’s punishing austerity’
Labour lost the general election because its approach to deficit reduction was only “slightly less severe” than that of the Conservative party,Andy Burnham has said.
Speaking ahead of the launch of his manifesto for the Labour party’s leadership election on Thursday, Burnham said he did not agree with fellow Labour MP Jon Cruddas, or who was asked by the party’s leadership to investigate the reasons for Labour’s electoral defeat and concluded on Wednesday that “the Tories didn’t win despite austerity,they won because of it”.
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Source: theguardian.com