Burnham blames Brexit and Thatcher for ‘wrong turns’ in first Commons speech as PM

The prime minister said Britain needed to be brutally honest about the mistakes of the last 40 years of UK politicsAndy Burnham has blamed Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for a decade of low growth in the UK, arguing that Britain needs to be brutally honest about having taken “a series of wrong turns” in the last 40 years.In his first Commons appearance since he took over as prime minister around six weeks ago, Burnham told MPs he wanted to build a new sense of optimism so “we can make this next decade better than the last”.Hinted that he would commit