Keir Starmer Compares Andy Burnham To Liz Truss As Labour War Of Words Escalates

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68d5794f18000080045d033b.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham during last year's election campaign." data-caption="Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham during last year's election campaign." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Bloomberg via Bloomberg via Getty Images" />Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham during last year's election campaign.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/keir-starmer/">Keir Starmer</a> has compared <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/andy-burnham/">Andy Burnham </a>to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/liz-truss/">Liz Truss</a> as Labour’s bitter civil war escalated.</p><p>The prime minister hit out at the Manchester mayor’s calls for the government to scrap its strict fiscal rules in what was seen as a pitch for the Labour leadership.</p><p>Burnham set out his plans in interviews with the New Statesman magazine and Daily Telegraph on the eve of <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/labour-party/">Labour’s</a> annual conference in Liverpool.</p><p>He the water, energy and rail industries should all be nationalised, a policy which would cost billions of pounds.</p><p>The former cabinet minister – who left Westminster in 2017 – also dismissed concerns about the size of the government’s debt, saying the UK must “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets”.</p><p>Those markets, which determine the interest rates the government pays on that debt, went into meltdown after Truss’s mini-Budget in 2022, sparking a financial crisis that ultimately forced her from office.</p><p>Starmer said he would not “get drawn int