Looking back to the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, I am stricken with sadness and something close to regret. Jeremy Corbyn won on the first round, with his 59.5 % share of the vote leaving Burnham, the runner up, in the dust with just 19%.
I had long since left the UK, had not renewed my Labour membership and was therefore unable to take part in that election. In the light of what happened to Labour subsequently , I wish I could say I would have voted for Burnham rather than Corbyn. The disagreeable truth is that I would have voted for Corbyn, albeit without much enthusiasm, because I thought that Labour needed to move leftwards and he seemed the best candidate to facilitate that movement. Alas, that did not work out as I had hoped; I should have listened more carefully to those who warned against him.
Now Burnham is being talked about again as a future leader. His speech to Compass sounds good , although I have yet to read the text. I would like to see his ideas for Labour contrasted and compared with those of Angela Rayner.
However, as the article suggests, his path to leadership could well be blocked by opponents in the party preventing his return to the Parliament.
If only he had been the leader who followed Ed Miliband, what a better place we would be in now! I know , I know, "If wishes were horses..."
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/06/andy-burnham-has-made-his-leadership-pitch
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