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Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE Sept 2025
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The ghosts of Downing Street past may have some advice for Andy Burnham

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By Jonathan Freedland Verified
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The first piece of unsolicited advice I would offer to Britain's incoming prime minister is: don't take unsolicited advice. Don't be one of those leaders who's swayed by the last person in their ear. That's what they used to say about Boris Johnson, that he was a cushion that bore the imprint of the last person who sat on him. Instead, Andy Burnham should study closely the experience of Johnson and the rest of his recent predecessors – and, let's face it, there's plenty of them.
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The ghosts of Downing Street past may have some advice for Andy Burnham

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By Jonathan Freedland Verified
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Photographs of previous prime ministers at No 10 Downing Street, London. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The first piece of unsolicited advice I would offer to Britain’s incoming prime minister is: don’t take unsolicited advice. Don’t be one of those leaders who’s swayed by the last person in their ear. That’s what they used to say about Boris Johnson, that he was a cushion that bore the imprint of the last person who sat on him.
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I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I'm not so sure

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By Jonathan Freedland Verified
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America's big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American colonies declared their independence from the Great Britain of George III. Many will be anxious that the republic they established that day is fragile – not least because of the would-be emperor in the White House. Some will console themselves that hope and angst have always been intertwined in the American story.
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