You need energy, it is becoming increasingly clear, to fight for the Labour leadership. Accordingly, as Andy Burnham heads for an early train from Waterloo to Guildford, he fortifies himself with his campaign drink of choice, Green Goodness (ingredients include: celery; cucumber; spinach) and contemplates the vigour of the man whose surge in the polls poses a serious threat to his hopes of succeeding Ed Miliband: Jeremy Corbyn. “Jeremy is representing a break with politics,” Burnham says. “There are no soundbites, there is no script. It is that which I think people are finding very attractive.
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