Burnham Can't Fix Britain With State Ownership

Andy Burnham fulminates against forty years of “neoliberalism,” which he claims has laid waste to the UK and especially his native north of England. The prime minister’s solution, outlined before his recent return to Westminster, was explicit; “Put more things under public control: energy, housing, water, transport.” If he means a return to wholesale nationalization and the industrial policy of the 1970s, then “broken Britain” will stay broken. Nobody should want to turn the clock back by half a