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The Circuit Breaker Burnham Wants To Throw

22 July 2026 · in 80 words

The Circuit Breaker Burnham Wants To Throw

Transformation is the explicit pitch. Burnham promises a new political and economic model, putting "life's essentials back under stronger public control", reindustrialising through public procurement, and a ten year plan due later this year. He concedes people are fed up with politics, so the test is whether the rhetoric of rewiring becomes change people can feel.

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