Guardian Politics
UK · 4 hrs ago
Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones
Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safe
Andy Burnham has promised to bring “four decades of neoliberalism” to an end. The first serious test of that pledge was always going to be the cabinet he appointed. The red flags are impossible to ignore.
Ending neoliberalism would mean putting privatised services back into public hands, unleashing public investment and using the power of the state to reshape the economy.…
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