Want to know what Andy Burnham would do in government? Take a look at his past | Frances Ryan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : As health secretary in 2009, Burnham proposed a free-at-the-point-of-use care service in England, paid for by abolishing inheritance tax and introducing a 10% levy on all estates – only to see it labelled a “death tax” by the Conservatives.
53% : Since as far back as 2010, Burnham has been floating the idea of a land value tax to replace council tax and stamp duty, while the rightwing press are already panicking he will raise capital gains tax as part of a “radical new economic
52% : Last month, Burnham told the Guardian he “wouldn’t flinch” from tax changes to fund a social care service in England, and would like to see the anticipated Casey review into adult social care (currently kicked down the road to 2028) published as soon as the end of the year.But will he flinch from supporting the migrant care workers needed to staff the system?
49% : Back in 2015, when George Osborne was ushering in sweeping austerity reforms, Burnham followed the then-interim Labour boss Harriet Harman’s order to abstain on the welfare reform bill.
45% : With a 16-year career in Westminster before his mayorship, Burnham’s former ministerial briefs and voting records cover almost every major issue he will now face as PM.Take welfare reform.
44% : Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty ImagesFast forward a decade and Burnham inherits fresh pressure from the rightwing media to curb “the bloated welfare bill” and a cohort of Labour backbenchers who successfully rebelled against Starmer’s bid to slash personal independence payments last summer.
44% : People need hope.”skip past newsletter promotionSign up to Matters of OpinionGuardian columnists and writers on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading, and moreafter newsletter promotionWill achieving that involve raising wealth taxes as well as lowering household bills?
39% : In 2015, during his failed Labour leadership bid, Burnham criticised the framing of Ed Miliband’s mansion tax, describing it as “a kind of good principle” but with a label that harked back to “the 1970s politics of envy”.

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