Last September Rachel Reeves, then still the all-powerful Chancellor, sealed her fate with Andy Burnham. The mayor of Greater Manchester was basking in national news headlines after he issued a radical call for Britain to stop being ‘in hock to the bond markets’.
His intervention marked the first time most in Westminster realised just how blatantly the so-called ‘King of the North’ was prepared to go to secure the limelight and begin his much-longed-for ascent to Downing Street.
While he and his team plotted out how to capitalise on his national prominence, he received a call from a furious Chancellor of the
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