Andy Burnham reminded the Conservative Party front bench about their support for Liz Truss’s disastrous premiership in his first Commons speech as prime minister.
In an address to MPs in the chamber on Tuesday, Burnham outlined his vision for Britain and how he would be approaching the role of prime minister.
The Labour leader said his approach would be “politics done differently,” as he vowed to move away from political points scoring and look for more cooperation across the house between parties.
Burnham pledged there would be more devolution deals for regions of the country and also called for stronger public control of essential services as he called out the decline Britain has experienced since the Thatcherism of the 1980s, which he said had been compounded by Brexit.
In response, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch highlighted how Burnham had only been prime minister for 43 days and warned him the role would be different to being mayor of Greater Manchester.
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Burnham dismissed comments from Badenoch about his short time in office though, highlighting that his government was already on the verge of outlining Liz Truss’s.
The PM said: “The honourable lady mentioned the fact I had been in my position [as prime minister] for just 43 days. Well, that means in six days this government will have outlived the Liz Truss government, and will be here for a lot, lot longer.”
His comments came in the wake of a Tory shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw Truss supporter Andrew Griffith, who was one of the architects of her disastrous mini-budget, become the shadow chancellor.