ANDY BURNHAM’S failure to oppose Tory welfare cuts in 2015, alongside fellow leadership contenders Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, was a watershed moment.

The contrast was stark between their miserable abstentions, justified by claims Labour would otherwise be “branded” soft on welfare, and Jeremy Corbyn’s principled opposition to an attack on some of the most vulnerable people in Britain.


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