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Writer, journalist, and content designer, with work published in Euronews, ITV News, the Telegraph, BFBS, and Newsweek.

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Speech to the Alliance Party Conference by Andy Burnham

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By Luke Hurst Verified
| It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast
The below is the speech delivered by the Labour & Co-operative Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to the Alliance Party Conference in Belfast on Saturday 14th May 2026. Thanks for having me – it is truly a great honour. If only my ancestors, who left Drogheda for Liverpool in the late 1800s, could see me now! And dare I say it’s nice to feel wanted by a political party?
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Mainstream - Labour needs its movement back — Chartist Original

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By Luke Hurst Verified
| Chartist Verified
When a party runs out of ideas, it ends up running on autopilot. That, sadly, is where Labour finds itself today. The country has changed government but not direction, and people can see it. We have lost the habits that once gave our politics meaning and drive. A culture of insularity, exclusion and hyper-factionalism is at the root of this. Too often, Labour now treats politics as management rather than mission. It prizes competence but forgets conviction.
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'Labour’s cultural turn is how and why Lucy Powell won'

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By Luke Hurst Verified
| LabourList
It was 1959 when Hugh Gaitskell railed against ‘small cliques’ rendering the Labour Party ‘out of touch with the mainstream’. His remarks were made in a different era of troubles for Labour, but their echoes were heard in the contest to elect Angela Rayner’s  successor that wrapped up on Saturday. An understandable level of cynicism abounded when the contest to elect our new Deputy Leader began.
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