‘You have to go back’ to understand crisis in housing, water and energy – Burnhampublished at 08:50 BST<\/p>\n
08:50 BST<\/p>\n
Robinson asks why, in his addresses, the PM speaks about the 1980s a lot, rather than looking forward and focusing on contemporary challenges.<\/p>\n
“Well where does the energy crisis comes from? I would say it has its roots in the 1980s when it was broken up and sold off,” Burnham says.<\/p>\n
He also points to “failing water system” and the “housing crisis”, again saying “you have to go back”. <\/p>\n
The conversation then moves on to Burnham’s late father, who he paid tribute to in his speech yesterday<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t he have advised his son to look to the future in his politics, Nick Robinson asks. <\/p>\n
Burnham says this wouldn’t be the case – his father was someone who would say “remember your roots” and “where you’ve come from”. <\/p>\n
He says losing his father, who will be buried on Friday, has been an emotional rollercoaster.<\/p>\n
“The two things coincided, the start of my journey as PM and the end of my dad’s journey,” he says, concluding his interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘You have to go back’ to understand crisis in housing, water and energy – Burnhampublished at 08:50 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-910923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}