Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau

The Econoclasts review 100 days of Burnham’s Britain

18 September 2026

Could Andy Burnham reverse Labour’s fortunes? The new Prime Minister has promised rapid change and a radical transformation of establishment politics, but with fragile bond markets, mounting debt and a troubled inheritance from Keir Starmer, he faces an uphill battle. Moving beyond the old tropes of Right and Left, the Econoclasts take on the mainstream myths and Westminster orthodoxies that conceal what’s really going on in Burnham’s Britain.