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Populism is not unstoppable

Andy Burnham turned back the Faragian tidal wave

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Latika M Bourke
Jun 19, 2026
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The death of two-party politics cannot be pronounced quite yet.

Two byelection results held in the United Kingdom delivered stunning, and in Labour’s case, consequential outcomes.

Labour’s ‘King of the North,’ Andy Burnham, united the left behind him, reducing the recently resurgent Greens and Liberal Democrats to less than half a per cent. But how he wo…

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