Burnham vows to reverse 'four decades of neoliberalism' in first speech as Labour leader

Andy Burnham told his first audience as Labour leader that Britain took a wrong turn in the 1980s, the BBC reported. He said "four decades of neoliberalism" — the free-market, small-state consensus dominant since Thatcher — had damaged working-class communities. He pledged to reverse it, calling this "the most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years," and extending his critique to New Labour's embrace of that consensus.