So, with a UK led by Andy Burnham looking increasingly likely, what do political opponents in Scotland think?<\/p>\n
The SNP have labelled him “more of the same” and “shallow and ego-driven”.<\/p>\n
Privately, some SNP insiders concede that Andy Burnham does appear to be communicating more effectively. And – in the short term – could improve Labour’s fortunes.<\/p>\n
But there’s a feeling that the fundamental challenges he faces are the same faced by Sir Keir, and that he’ll be largely constrained by the same economic conditions.<\/p>\n
There don’t seem to be any Andy Burnham visits to Scotland planned.<\/p>\n
Much of his focus at the moment will be on trying to retain the Greater Manchester mayoralty for Labour next month.<\/p>\n
However, he is scheduled to meet with Scottish MPs later this week.<\/p>\n
After a dismal showing in the Holyrood election last month, he’ll have to convince them that he has a plan to rebuild north of the border.<\/p>\n
Selling that message to those MPs is one thing \u2013 that’s an audience who will want him to succeed.<\/p>\n
If he reaches Downing Street, he’ll then have to sell it to the Scottish public. Who may well prove to be a bit more sceptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, with a UK led by Andy Burnham looking increasingly likely, what do political opponents in Scotland think?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}