Who and what does Andy Burnham think he is? He continues to act in many ways as if he were still a mayor, shooting from the hip to stay in the news, rather than PM.
As Prime Minister, he is the head of government. He is in charge of a whole country, keeping it safe from threats abroad and from crime and disorder at home.
His most pressing concern just now must surely be an economy in dire need of reform, though he has put that project off, perhaps in the hope that it will somehow go away.
It will not. So why now
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