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LABOUR shadow heath secretary Andy Burnham has batted off speculation that he has greater ambitions.
Interviewed on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show, the shadow cabinet high-flier was asked: “Here is somebody who has very strong hopes of leading the Labour Party in due course, true or not?”
Mr Burnham replied: “No, I am loyal to the leader.”
Mr Marr persisted: “Are you focused on the job in the same way that Boris Johnson is focused on the job?”
But Mr Burnham explicitly ruled out standing when asked if he would “in due course.”
Asked about Labour’s role in NHS privatisation, Mr Burnham told the programme “he changed policy as health secretary” so the NHS would be the “preferred provider” of health services.
“I make no bones about it — I believe in a public NHS,” he said.
“I am very clear the market is not the answer to 21st-century healthcare.”
