'The country is in a dangerous place - people are frightened': Andy Burnham on power, progress and finding his place

Five years into his job, the mayor of Greater Manchester is calling for a radical reinvention of the political system. He talks about his big ideas, confronting self-doubt - and the chances of him running for the Labour leadership Just under a week after he returned home from the Glastonbury festival, Andy Burnham is still brimming with enthusiasm. "I loved every single waking second of it," he says. "I just soaked it up." Burnham's ebullience is at least partly down to the fact that he was a Gl...