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Former ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Secretary David Blunkett says Labour lost last month's general election because the party failed to impose its own economic narrative to counter the one offered by George Osborne.

Speaking to Jo Coburn, he said: "We ought to have been much louder in our voices, those of us who were shouting: 'We need a narrative, we need to explain what's happening politically, relate that to the economic reality, and have an alternative to the rapid austerity programme which actually of course didn't work.'"

Mr Blunkett also backed Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership, but he said he wants all the leadership candidates to "offer something bigger" than crawling over what happened in the general election, and offer a "vision of what Britain will look like in 2025 and 2030".