Labour's 'most popular' Andy Burnham makes high-risk move to stand in leadership contest against PM (opens in new tab)

At a moment of profound instability in British politics, with the Labour Party engulfed by internal revolt, François Picard welcomes Owen Jones, British author, Guardian columnist and political commentator\. He offers an unsparing diagnosis of a political movement at a crossroads\. “The country is in political turmoil,” Jones declares at the outset\. What follows is not merely commentary on a leadership race, but a wider analysis of institutional decay and electoral fragmentation\. With strik...