‘Good growth in every postcode’: Burnham’s economic to-do list in seven charts

Burnham opened his speech by admitting that Britain's political class had failed to deliver stability or improve living standards. “I know people at home are fed up with politics. I hear you,” he said. “We have not been good enough and we need to be better.”

Britain’s middle class is showing signs of buckling under financial pressure, with incoming prime minister Andy Burnham considering a wave of interventions to ease the cost of living.

From industrial strategy and defence to housing and living costs, we lay out the challenges facing the new PM Andy Burnham becomes prime minister as Britain contends with a series of global economic shocks and years of weak growth in living standards, fuelled by underinvestment…