FLAGGING Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham attempted to break with the negative mood of the campaign yesterday by arguing that the party must “inspire people with our ideas” to win.

Mr Burnham, considered the frontrunner until the current surge in support for leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn, said he had become “increasingly disillusioned” with Labour’s drift away from voters.

His intervention came as acting leader Harriet Harman insisted the party was rooting out “bogus” supporters, after Sunday newspapers reported a “hard left infiltration” of the party to support Mr Corbyn.