I appreciate it’s early days. That it’s always a mistake to rush to premature judgment. That we don’t have enough evidence yet to come to a definitive conclusion. Even so, I find myself increasingly asking, if only in a whisper: is Prime Minister Andy Burnham a dud?
It’s certainly not the consensus view. Far from it. The Labour faithful, a starstruck media and, to a lesser extent, the great British public have rather taken to Burnham’s speedy elevation to the pinnacle of political power.
They like that he speaks human (unlike his predecessor). That he seems a decent enough chap. That he
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