It’s been just 10 weeks since he became prime minister, but in his first set-piece conference speech as Labour leader, Andy Burnham wanted the party and the country to know its origins went back much further.
To his working-class background, right there, in Liverpool. To securing the education his parents were denied, to his disillusion with Westminster, to the transformation under his watch of Manchester, to the recent death of his father. The landmarks of his life were all there, and more.
