Burnham promises to bring optimism and ‘substantial change’ in first Commons speech as PM

The prime minister said Britain needed to be brutally honest about the ‘series of wrong turns’ it had taken in the last 40 years Andy Burnham has blamed Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for a decade of low growth in the UK, arguing that Britain needs to be brutally honest about having taken “a series of wrong turns” in the last 40 years.