What does Andy Burnham desire or envisage? What are his plans? After his two-hour session in the Commons it was unclear if he himself knew.
He bounced all over the place, a pinball under glass, an autumn bluebottle going mad in your bedside lampshade, deranged by fear of being swatted.
Mr Burnham, in only his third parliamentary week as PM, was at the despatch box for an ‘international update’.
The obvious crisis was Ukraine and President Trump’s latest crass gambit.
The PM did not wish to chew long on that. He fluttered his lashes and moved to proposed EU renegotiations.
Ed Miliband, Foreign Secretary, sat
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