Burnham is 'people pleaser' with 'airy fairy' plans, says Kemi Badenoch

During his code connected Friday, Burnham promised to present "the astir important alteration infinitesimal successful our authorities for 40 years".

In doing so, helium made 5 pledges to the public, including moving with different parties successful a "distinctively Labour" absorption and transferring powerfulness from Westminster to section authorities.

But contempt Burnham's promises to extremity point-scoring successful Westminster, Badenoch told the BBC: "I volition people arsenic galore points arsenic imaginable if it means the close happening for the country.

"What I'm not going to bash is springiness Andy Burnham a blank cheque."

"What the state needs close present is idiosyncratic who tin instrumentality pugnacious decisions, who tin look down the Labour MPs that don't privation to bash thing difficult. And that is what worries me," she added.

Badenoch emphasised that she likes Burnham, who she has met before, calling him a "nice guy" and a "people pleaser".

She explained: "The occupation is not a popularity contest. It is making the lives of each of the radical extracurricular this gathering better. And helium has not said what he's going to do. It's each airy-fairy stuff.'"

In a nonstop critique of Burnham's archetypal code arsenic Labour leader, Badenoch accused the erstwhile Manchester politician of being "a antheral who was talking to the Labour Party, not to the country".

"It was each Labour this, Labour that, their factions, their issues. I'm not definite that helium is alert of what the country's priorities are and if he's go premier curate without that past I deliberation he's going being for a rude awakening, to usage his ain words," she told the BBC.

Burnham, who returned to Parliament a period agone successful a by-election, emerged arsenic the sole enactment campaigner aft being backed by 379 Labour MPs, arsenic good arsenic each 11 commercialized unions affiliated to the party, earlier this week.

But up of his archetypal code connected Monday, the incoming premier curate has remained coy astir who volition beryllium filling the apical roles successful his cabinet.