Burnham’s emotional solo act had Labour in raptures but his promises will take time to come good

PM’s speech, written almost entirely alone, was full of radicalism but his biggest plans will have to wait until after the next election

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Hope Again is the conference slogan. But what felt even more apt was Try Again.

Just forget about the last two years, after the party won a historic majority but where the mood never matched the achievement. Now, as conference delegates and MPs filed out of the hall after Andy Burnham’s first speech as prime minister, it was close to euphoria. Where the hell have you been all our lives? What have we been doing – when you were right there all along?