Kemi Badenoch could be forgiven for believing she had the perfect strategy to trip up Andy Burnham at their first PMQs clash.
The day before, our new Prime Minister had stood at the despatch box for more than three hours to be grilled by MPs – primarily nervous ones from his own party – over everything from the state of Britain’s high streets to soaring energy prices.
And one eager-eyed Tory researcher had spotted an incriminating thing. Not once had Burnham rejected an opportunity to spend more public money.
So the attack line was duly set. Warning of the ructions in the bond
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