University of Cambridge Chancellor the Rt Hon Lord Chris Smith's recent article in The Telegraph, "Andy Burnham is about to prove the true worth of a Cambridge English degree" discusses what Member of Parliament Burnham could bring to the office of Prime Minister as a graduate of Arts and Humanities.
"I feel rather a lot of hope that if Andy Burnham does become prime minister, he will bring the human understanding with him that he will have acquired when studying English at Cambridge 35 years ago," said Smith. "He may well be our first prime minister to have studied English at university, and that would be a very good thing."