Andy Burnham buckled under pressure at a Commonwealth summit yesterday – as he took a tumble on a rain-soaked cricket pitch.
The Prime Minister, in the middle of a major row over slavery reparations for Caribbean and African nations, went down on a sticky wicket in Antigua as he prevaricated over a risky single.
It was not the first time during the trip to the storm-lashed island that he had come a-cropper trying to get on the front foot.
While he is at the Commonwealth Heads of Government event his aim to apologise to other nations for Britain’s role in the slave trade
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