Will Labour MPs dare ask themselves whether they were too hasty in pushing outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer out of office? Were they too eager to remove a PM who had legitimacy and won a resounding majority in a general election just two years ago, only to replace him with someone who lacks legitimacy and will ultimately have to call an election he will not be certain of winning?Above all, will anyone dare ask themselves whether Andy Burnham, the new Labour MP tipped to be the UK’s next leader, has a plan, a vision and the means to meet voters’ expectations in a way Starmer failed to do? Does he have what it takes to uphold the national interest of the nation, improve its security, its growth and economic potential, its services and welfare in a way that is feasible and not costly simply by rewiring the state, as he claimed this week in his first major speech?Does anyone believe that Burnham’s proposed devolution from London to provincial cities and counties will recalibrate the state and its institutions, regenerate society and erase the UK’s regional discrepancies? Is this the answer to the many adversities today’s Britain is suffering from?Let us be clear, maybe Burnham will be better than Starmer in terms of style and form, but he — just like the most vocal opposition parties like the Conservatives, the Greens and the extreme-right Reform UK — does not have a magic wand to transform things at the speed an impatient electorate wants.The UK, like many liberal democratic Western countries,........

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