OPINION - Alastair Campbell: Is Andy Burnham the ‘persevilient’ Prime Minister Britain’s politics needs?
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‘Burnham has the same values as he always had, and is arguing for the same things he always did. Yet in other ways he is not the same person,’ writes Alastair Campbell
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Persevilience (a portmanteau of “perseverance” and “resilience”) is a word which popped into my head when I was writing about mental health. Why? Because it is a word which matters. It matters to our wellbeing, but also to our politics. It matters to how we engage with the world, and how we face up to the various elements that combine to create what we now commonly call a polycrisis.
If Keir Starmer became prime minister by not being the Tories, Andy Burnham became prime minister partly by not being Keir Starmer. So, does Burnham have persevilience? It is early days, so far as his role as our seventh prime minister in just over a decade goes.
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