Andy Burnham has bottled it yet again. He hasn’t made a single significant decision on defence, on welfare or on oil and gas. All things he promised he would sort during his leadership coronation.
We had been told for weeks that the Prime Minister was set to approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea. Burnham’s army of government spinners had been busy briefing journalists that he was going to be ‘pragmatic’ on oil and gas, and do something that Keir Starmer had always avoided. It was understood that he’d announce the new drilling licences on
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