Andy Burnham, always so keen to genuflect and emote, may have found that shooting from the hip worked as mayor of Manchester.
But, as Prime Minister, he risks pulling the rug out from underneath the King.
By dangling the prospect of an official Government apology for slavery, he faces embarrassing the monarch who has already heavily hinted that there won’t be one.
The Prime Minister’s decision to depart from long-standing British government policy threatens to unleash all manner of consequences that bumbling Burnham clearly has barely thought about.
His intervention through an article in The Guardian on Friday will surely have surprised Buckingham Palace.
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