RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Arrogant, entitled and morally superior. Enjoy it while you can, Andy, this is why it’s all downhill from here

The sheer effrontery of it all is what sticks in my craw. Ten minutes after strolling back into Westminster, Andy Burnham announces that he intends to be Prime Minister for the next ten years.

Who voted for that?

The intergalactic level of arrogance, the ocean-going sense of entitlement, the stomach-churning moral superiority. All of it on display during Burnham’s stage-managed show of premature triumphalism in Manchester yesterday.

On his hind legs in front of an invited audience of regional mayors and carefully vetted cheerleaders, Burnham went into full Andy Capp mode.

Unveiling a Soviet-style ten-year plan for ‘change’, he announced that the political centre

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