Overview

• In a New Statesman cover interview, the Greater Manchester mayor set out a platform to bring housing, energy, water, rail and buses into public ownership.
• He advocated switching to proportional representation and urged Labour to make a stronger case that Brexit was a mistake.
• Burnham criticised Keir Starmer’s leadership as factional and divisive and presented his alternative as 'aspirational socialism' aimed at working-class ambition.
• He said he is ready to play any role to advance his agenda and is open to working with the Liberal Democrats and Jeremy Corbyn.
• The intervention comes just before Labour’s conference, where he plans to press his 'wholesale change' question, warning of gains for Reform UK without a shift and facing the hurdle that he is not an MP.