As Keir Starmer was readying himself for his second Labour conference as Prime Minister this time last year, the talk was all about Andy Burnham, who had given a series of ‘come and get me’ interviews.
Starmer survived – but it was a temporary stay of execution. After Labour’s disastrous local election results in May, Labour MPs came and got Burnham.
But as the former mayor of Greater Manchester prepares for his first conference as PM, his main problem is not that he has no mandate from voters – or even from Labour members.
It’s that after two months in Downing Street he still appears
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