Andy Burnham tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that the Labour party should be “for a fairer spread of health, wealth and life chances”.
As David Miliband fights his brother Ed, Political Editor Gary Gibbon explains the story behind the rivalry and how the first female black candidate could throw a spanner in the voting arithmetic.
Political analyst Peter McHugh examines the contenders in a Labour leadership race described by Diane Abbott as containing “the narrowest gene pool in history”.
Jon Snow
To answer my own initial question: Purnell has broken from the pack. He has done what David Miliband, conceivably Andy Burnham, and maybe John Hutton (of whom more in a moment), might have done and must have been thinking of doing. Purnell has plunged a knife that has been waiting for such an exercise for…
Jon Snow
I was fortunate to attend Liverpool University in the late 1960s. It wasn’t just the experience of living in a Northern industrial city, it was the insight into scouse culture that it provided. Hence the event remembering the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 20 years ago had a poignancy for me.
Jon Snow
Amazing scenes from Anfield, the home of Liverpool FC today, on the 20th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough. A total of 96 people died as the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was getting under in Sheffield way back in April 1989.
