希望，而非绝望：伯纳姆试图重振英国民众的情绪安迪·伯纳姆预计将在周二举行的工党年会上阐述他的政策计划。
Hope, Not Doom: Burnham Aims to Reset Mood of a Bruised Britain Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to lay out his policy plans in an address on Tuesday at the Labour Party’s annual conference.
他上任英国首相仅71天，是通过党内“政变”成为国家领导人的——这场“政变”并未经过全国性的竞选活动，也没有提出详细的执政承诺或具体的治理方案。在周二的演讲中，伯纳姆将明确自己打算如何履行首相职责。
Andy Burnham has been Britain’s prime minister for 71 days, the victor of an intraparty coup that made him the country’s leader with no national campaign, no long list of promises and little explanation of how he would govern.
在工党年会上，他有望提出一项雄心勃勃的十年发展规划，内容包括：改革国家养老体系、制定新的就业政策以解决青年失业问题、严厉打击非法移民、将更多权力下放给伦敦以外的城市和地区、努力降低生活成本，以及彻底消除无家可归现象。
On Tuesday, he will lay out what he wants to do with the job.
他的计划的核心在于重振人们对英国经济未来的信心——这正是针对选民对现有体制日益降低的信任，以及自2016年脱欧公投以来英国首相频繁更迭所引发的民众不满情绪而提出的。在利物浦举行的工党年会前的采访中，伯纳姆表示自己决心扭转这种消极情绪。
In a speech at the Labour Party’s annual conference, Mr. Burnham is expected to call for an ambitious 10-year agenda of domestic renewal, including an overhaul of how the country cares for its elderly, new programs to counter youth unemployment, a crackdown on illegal immigration, a shift in power to cities and towns outside London, efforts to reduce the cost of living, and an end to homelessness.
“周二大家就会看到我的行动，我来到这里就是为了有所作为，为了结束长达十年的分裂与动荡，”他在周日接受BBC采访时说，“我相信只有这样，人们才能重新燃起希望：他们能够理解我的行动目的，也能看到这条道路能够带领英国走向更好的未来。”
His agenda is deeply focused on rebuilding hope in Britain’s economic future, in response to voters’ declining trust in institutions and frustration with a rapid turnover of prime ministers since the Brexit referendum of 2016. In interviews ahead of the speech at the party’s conference in Liverpool, Mr. Burnham said he was determined to reverse that feeling.
根据民意调查，伯纳姆是目前英国最受欢迎的政客之一。在他之前担任领袖的基尔·斯塔默执政期间，工党的支持率曾大幅下滑；如今，工党在民意调查中的支持率虽仍略低于保守党，但已重新处于领先地位。周日开始的利物浦年会现场气氛明显较为积极。
“They’ll see on Tuesday, I am here to do something. I am here to end a decade of drifting division,” he told the BBC on Sunday. “I think that’s where we get hope again because people can say, ‘OK, I understand what he’s doing, why he said that, and I can see that as a path that could take Britain to a better place.’”So far, that message appears to be resonating. Mr. Burnham is one of the most popular politicians in the country, according to surveys, and his Labour Party, which had seen its ratings sink under Keir Starmer, its previous leader, is now leading again in the polls, albeit narrowly. The mood at the Liverpool conference that started Sunday has been noticeably upbeat.
但真正的难题才刚刚开始。下个月，该国的财政部长（即财政大臣）将公布伯纳姆先生的首份国家预算报告，并通过这份报告详细说明政府将如何为所有计划中的项目提供资金。鉴于该国经济增长缓慢且债务水平较高，没人认为这份预算会显得乐观（即预算内容不会令人满意）。
But the hard part has not started yet. Next month, the country’s treasury chief, the chancellor of the Exchequer, will unveil Mr. Burnham’s first national budget, and with it he will begin to explain how the government will pay for all the things it wants to do. Given the country’s sluggish growth and high debt, no one expects that to be pretty.