If we have learned anything from the Makerfield by-election campaign it is what a slippery character Andy Burnham is.
Last September, in an interview with the New Statesman, you may remember, he said that ‘We’ve got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets.’ The bond markets themselves responded immediately by reminding Burnham that governments spite them at their peril.
Yields rose sharply as investors, who were already taking Burnham seriously as a potential prime minister, feared that a government under his control would borrow recklessly and lose control of public finances.
And now? Burnham claims that it was all a horrible mistake; he was misunderstood.
✍️ Ross Clark
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Labour MPs looking utterly miserable listening to Kemi Badenoch in the Commons. Emily Thornberry brave enough to step in and try to knock her off course but you could see as Thornberry sat back down the pure fury and frustration of someone forced to listen to uncomfortable truths