SPD Vice President Schweitzer praises British Prime Minister Burnham as a role model for economic policy

According to its deputy federal chairman Alexander Schweitzer, the SPD can learn from British Prime Minister Andy Burnham. “Concentration on the economy,” said the Rhineland-Palatinate SPD politician in an interview with the German Press Agency in Mainz as an example of this.

And: “Jobs must be created in our own country and people’s living costs must fall.” Schweitzer traveled to Liverpool with an SPD delegation to the Social Democrats' party conference.

The Labor politician Burnham makes clear statements at the programmatic level, praised Schweitzer. Schweitzer cited a strong economy, reindustrialization, long-term care insurance, support for the regions and training as well as tax cuts for pubs as examples.

“Political systems are very different”

The enthusiasm for Burnham as a person is also so strong because people know that he can implement his ideas without having to make compromises with a coalition partner. “The political systems in Great Britain and Germany are very different,” emphasized Schweitzer, also with a view to federalism.

“He is also the first British Prime Minister to have said very clearly that we will be worse off after Brexit than before,” said Schweitzer. “Something is happening.”