Andy Burnham calls for early general election to ‘restore sanity to politics’

Andy Burnham has called for an early general election to ‘restore some sanity to British politics’. 

The Mayor of Greater Manchester appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s mini-budget announcement this morning, where he claimed the Conservative party had ‘given up the right to govern’.

Describing the party as being in ‘chaos’, Burnham also slammed the number of different chancellors seen throughout the last year as ‘an unbelievable state of affairs’. 

And when asked by presenter Richard Madeley whether it would feel ‘rather odd’ to have a Labour government in power after thirteen years of the Conservatives, Burnham responded: “No not at all.

“Keir has made the case for a Labour government, he set out his stall, he did so very effectively at the Labour conference, basically the Conservative party has been disintegrating.

“It needs to look itself in the mirror today and ask itself whether it has actually got what it takes to govern this country. I am at Greater Manchester Green summit today and I was just working out that we have had six chancellors of the exchequer in the five years we have been holding these summits.

“It is an unbelievable state of affairs, I think they have given up the right to govern such is the chaos they are in, and we should actually start looking to an early general election to restore some sanity to British politics and Keir Starmer is clearly the person that is bringing that.”

He added: “Even the boss of Tesco said there is only one team on the pitch and when he says that, I think it’s time to let that team take over.”