Kirsty Blackman: “The UK Labour Government has endlessly boasted about confronting the big issues, but they have completely ignored the…”

Under the Labour Government, many families are living payday-to-payday, the number of people in poverty has risen by half a million and UK unemployment has increased to a five-year high.

Andy Burnham should listen to those economic sirens that are ringing louder by the day – and act to protect families ahead of this autumn and winter.

For all his early 'vibes' about supposedly doing politics differently, he is doing a very good job at displaying the exact same anti-democratic arrogance of every single Westminster Prime Minister who came before him.

It shows why real change can only come with independence.