Making Mahmood chancellor shows Burnham ‘subservient to City’, Greens’ Polanski says – UK politics live

Green leader claims expected appointment shows new PM ‘won’t challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth’ Zack Polanski , the Green party leader, says reports saying Shabana Mahmood is now set to be Andy Burnham’s chancellor have shown he would be “subservient to the City”. Polanski posted this on social media this morning. We don’t know what the cabinet will be yet, but the mood music is ominous. A Labour Party subservient to the City of London and harking back to the Blair years would be catastrophic for this country. “City relieved” = Burnham’s government won’t challenge the pow