The great Labour brain drain (opens in new tab)

How awkward is it that the last great hope of the Labour Left should have the NHS’s first hospital privatization tucked away in his curriculum vitae? Long before he became the patron saint of bus franchising and the scourge of centralization, Andy Burnham found himself grappling with the institutional collapse of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire. The solution eventually chosen, under a procurement process initiated on his watch and completed by the Coalition, was not public oversight...