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John Healey is a clever choice for Chancellor

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By James Heale Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
One of the key traits of a successful politician is the capacity to surprise. Andy Burnham has proved he has that ability in his first big call of the new cabinet. For weeks now, the race for Chancellor has dominated in Westminster. Most pundits backed either Ed Miliband or Shabana Mahmood to take up the post: standard bearers for the soft left and Blue Labour factions in the party, respectively.
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Burnham is trying to do a Brown

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By James Heale Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become Britain’s 59th Prime Minister. The team around him has been strikingly circumspect when it comes to setting out his plans. But this weekend we are starting to get some smoke signals via the Sunday papers. The new PM will back licences for drilling at the Rosebank and Jackdaw gas fields. Thames Water, Britain’s largest water supplier, is likely to be placed in special measures over £18bn owed to creditors.
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Neil O’Brien: ‘This is a radically different party’

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By James Heale Verified
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No one quite yet knows what Andy Burnham will be like as Prime Minister. But a preview of the coming Tory critique is offered by Neil O’Brien, the man tasked with co-ordinating the Conservative Party’s policy offering. ‘He’s tended to go with the soft left all the time, WASPI women, always the sort of easy answers’, he says.
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