Some will say Andy Burnham did a U-turn on Brexit. The motoring cliche does not do it justice. This volte-face was so breezy it was worthy of the Winter Olympics.
Here was an artiste at the top of his powers. Ice-skating judges will determine if it was an axel, salchow, camel spin or top-notch twizzle.
All I know is that at one moment our ‘PM-in-waiting’ was shimmering along with a practised grin, waggling his Captain Scarlet eyebrows, all blithely smooth; the next he was up in the air, twirling like dear John Curry going for gold at Innsbruck in 1976.
When he landed
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