Labour politicians are not attracting a huge amount of attention at the moment. They are not in government and they've just started a policy review, which means they are not in a position now to announce new proposals. But Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, has already struck a new tone when talking about schools. He's also Labour's election campaign co-ordinator. I'm interviewing him on Thursday. What do you think I should ask?
If you're interested in his thinking on education, do read this speech that he gave to the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services last month. Burnham said he wanted to "rehabilitate" the comprehensive ideal. He expanded on this theme in an interview with my colleague Louise Tickle.
At the moment he's attacking the government over its plans to abolish the education maintenance allowance and over its threats to school sport and Sure Start. But I don't want to focus just on education.
As election campaign co-ordinator, Burnham has already said that he does not want to use the Labour machine to campaign for the alternative vote in next year's local elections. I'd be interested in any other issues you want to raise about Labour campaigning.
Burnham, of course, was a candidate in Labour's leadership contest. His campaign website is still up, and if you want to know more about his thinking, here are some of the long interviews he gave during the campaign, with Labour Uncut, with LabourList and with the New Statesman.
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