Fiscal hawk or big spender – what kind of chancellor will John Healey be?

John Healey, the diligent and popular new chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Andy Burnham, is seen as a safe choice to unite a fractured party and not alarm markets, but he has been given a straitjacket and tasked with funding Burnham's policy promises. The article suggests Healey is more ideologically driven than he appears, and warns that Burnham risks a repeat of the Gordon Brown-Alistair Darling dynamic if he treats Healey as merely a factotum.