Nothing we have seen over the past seven weeks suggests Andy Burnham is proper Downing Street material.
Yet even by the underwhelming standards he has set since coming to power, he has let himself down badly by allowing the Green Party to dictate his actions.
On Saturday, the Daily Mail reports that the Prime Minister has postponed plans to approve drilling at the North Sea’s Jackdaw gas field until after next month’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
It doesn’t require the services of a mind reader to work out that he fears a backlash from eco-zealots who could help Greens leader Zack Polanski
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