# Markets raise UK borrowing costs after Burnham renationalisation plans

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/if-burnham-doesnt-wake-up-to-labours-moron-premium-the-markets-will-sweep-him-from-power-as-speedily-as-he-arrived-alex-brummer/
- Published: 2026-09-03T00:59:15+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-03T01:12:43+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16100481/If-Burnham-doesnt-wake-Labours-moron-premium-markets-sweep-power-speedily-arrived-ALEX-BRUMMER.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Business, Government, Markets, Politics, World

## Key points

- Columnist accuses PM Burnham of reviving a Truss-style "moron premium"
- UK ten-year gilt yields hit 5.29%, highest since 2008 crisis
- UK borrowing costs now exceed other G7 nations, article claims

## Summary

Daily Mail columnist Alex Brummer warns that Prime Minister Andy Burnham risks triggering a repeat of the market turmoil seen under Liz Truss, after a Commons speech outlining plans to reverse Thatcherite reforms, avoid "crude cuts" to welfare and pursue "relentless" renationalisation of utilities such as water and energy. The article argues that bond markets have already reacted badly, pushing UK borrowing costs sharply higher and reviving talk of a Labour "moron premium" reminiscent of the one that helped end Truss's premiership in 2022.

The piece notes that the yield on ten-year UK gilts rose to 5.29 per cent, the highest since the 2008 financial crisis and above levels reached under Truss, while 30-year gilt yields hit 5.92 per cent, a level not seen since 1998. Brummer contrasts this with other G7 nations, saying UK yields are far higher than America's 4.79 per cent and France's 4.22 per cent, and credits Thatcherism and Brexit with prior economic gains that he says Burnham's approach threatens to undo.

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