Andy Burnham opened his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister yesterday with a solemn appeal for loyalty.
‘We will only make hope feel real if we are pulling together in the same direction with a sense of one team,’ he told his new batch of ministers, many of whom had been heavily involved in the coup against his predecessor.
On the face of it, Labour is more united than ever. A staggering 379 of the party’s 403 MPs nominated Mr Burnham for the leadership, giving him the luxury of a ‘coronation’ which has allowed him to enter No 10 by stealth without
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